Mika
From Hebrew, a name that asks "who is like God?". In Poland it stays rare and reads almost entirely as a girl's name, so most Poles have never actually met a Mika.
Mika Pronunciation
Mika is pronounced MEE-kah (/ˈmika/).
What Mika means
Where Mika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mika begins in Hebrew, in the question mi ka'el, "who is like god." The same question stands behind Michael and Micah, and it was posed as a challenge, since no one was meant to answer it. Mika holds that challenge in a shorter form. In Polish the phrase comes out as któż jak bóg.
The name also lives in Japan, where Mika is written in Japanese characters and given to girls. This coincidence gave the name two homes at once. A child in Poland named Mika stands between them, Hebrew meaning under a Japanese sound.
On a class register the name is short and learned on the first day. Mika needs no diminutive. Polish speakers rarely reach for one, and the name works without it. So the meaning stays close to the surface, where a reader can pick it up without help: who is like god, któż jak bóg.
How many people are named Mika
1 in 59015 women in Poland is named Mika. 434 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1422 among female names.
Mika's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #943 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2005.
Where Mika is most popular
Mika is most popular in Masovian, 336% above the national average (15 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Lower Silesian (+31%). It is least common in Lesser Poland and Greater Poland, 9% and 4% below average respectively.
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Masovian15 girls born+336%
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Lower Silesian2 girls born+31%
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Greater Poland2 girls born−4%
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Lesser Poland2 girls born−9%
Mika as a middle name
Mika is a first name for 434 women in Poland and a middle name for another 57, an 88/12 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 909th, between Juliet (57) and Phuong (57).
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#907 Elizabet57
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#908 Juliet57
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#909 Mika57
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#910 Phuong57
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#911 Sabine57