Given name
Miika
Miika is a masculine given name from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
How it developed
In Finnish usage, Miika is a diminutive of Mikael.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2010. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Miika through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 6
- 0 boys · 6 girls
- Most popular year
- 2010
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Miika’s family of names
In Finnish usage, Miika is a diminutive of Mikael. In Finnish usage, Miika has a conventional equivalent in the English form Micah. In Finnish usage, Miika has a conventional equivalent in the German form Micha.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Miika has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Biblical Hebrew roots to each of them.
4 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Miika
- Miika KoppinenFinnish footballerborn 1978
- Miika KoivistoFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1990
- Miika ElomoFinnish ice hockey player (1977–2025)
- Miika TenkulaFinnish guitarist (1974–2009)
- Miika AulioFinnish archerborn 1975
- Miika Hietanencyclistborn 1968
- Miika LahtiFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1987
- Miika WiikmanFinnish ice hockey playerborn 1984
- Miika NousiainenFinnish writer and journalistborn 1973
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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