Michaela

• Mikaela, Mackayla, Makayla, Mickayla, Mikayla, Mykayla

From Michael +‎ -a. Latinate feminine form of Michael, first appearing as an anglicisation of the Portuguese ("Micaela") and Spanish ("Micaela"). Doublet of Michelle.

• (US) IPA^(key): /mɪˈkeɪ.lə/

Michaela

1. A female given name from Hebrew.
   • 1897, Clarissa Joy Suraji (=Grant Allen), The Type-writer Girl, Street & Smith, published 1900, page 227:

     Do you remember at Holmwood I called you Michaela, because you were so fair, like the girl in the opera? Now, this type-writer girl is dark, and she has been playing Carmen to you - stealing your love away from you by her clever ways.

   • 2008, Sandra Kitt, For All We Know, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 176:

     Edward had asked about her name. What was the origin and the meaning? "Unusual, but it has a nice sound. Kind of like Mahalia."
     Michaela had lifted her shoulders, helplessly. "I have no idea. My mother said she read it somewhere and liked the sound. And she didn't want me to have a name like everyone else. She said she thought I was going to be special."

• Taken up as a name of Anglophones in the 1950s, first in the UK, later in the US with a frequency peak in the 1990s.

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Michaela f

1. a female given name, equivalent to English Michaela

Feminine form of Michael taken into general use in the 20th century.

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Michaela

1. a female given name

• Popular in Germany in the 1960s and the 1970s.

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Michaela f (genitive singular Michaely, nominative plural Michaely, declension pattern of žena)

1. a female given name

• “Michaela”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2024

Less common spelling of Mikaela. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1843.

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Michaela c (genitive Michaelas)

1. a female given name