Mika

• (Japanese given name): Borrowed from Japanese みか (Mika).
• (Hebrew given name): From Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh)

Mika (plural Mikas)

1. A unisex given name.
   1. A female given name from Japanese.
   2. A unisex given name from Hebrew, variant of Micah.

• Kami, kami, maki

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɪka]

Mika m anim (female equivalent Miková)

1. a male surname

• “Mika”, in Příjmení.cz (in Czech)

Ultimately from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh), shortened form of מִיכַיְהוּ (mīḵāyᵊhū, “who is like Yahweh”).

Mika m

1. a male given name

Patronymics

• son of Mika: Mikason
• daughter of Mika: Mikadóttir

20th century short form of Mikael (“Michael”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmikɑ/, [ˈmikɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikɑ
• Syllabification^(key): Mi‧ka
• Hyphenation^(key): Mi‧ka

Mika

1. a male given name

   Mika Waltari oli suomalainen kirjailija.

   Mika Waltari was a Finnish writer.

   • 2013, Minna Lindgren, Kuolema Ehtoolehdossa, Teos, →ISBN, page 89:

     Mies sanoi olevansa Mika, ja se kuulosti samalla tavalla kirveeniskulta kuin Pasi ja Tero.

     The man said his name was Mika, and like Pasi and Tero, it felt sharp like an axe blow.

Popular in the 1960s and 1970s. The most common first name of men born in Finland in 1967 - 1973.

• Mika is the 8^th most common male given name in Finland, belonging to 33,350 male individuals (and as a middle name to 2,908 more), and also belongs to 18 female individuals (and as a middle name to 7 more), according to February 2023 data from the Digital and Population Data Services Agency of Finland.

• maki

Borrowed from Japanese みか (Mika).

• IPA^(key): /mi.ka/

Mika f

1. a female given name from Japanese

Short form of Mikaali.

Mika

1. a male given name from Danish, equivalent to English Michael

• Same spelling in the old and new orthography.

• Mikaali
• Mikkili

• Nuka Møller: Kalaallit aqqi (Greenlandic personal names), Oqaasileriffik 2015, →ISBN
• [1] Danskernes navne 2005, including the residents of Greenland

• IPA^(key): /ˈmi.ka/, [ˈmi.kə]

Mika

1. (biblical) Micah
2. a male given name originating from the Bible

• Mary Kawena Pukui - Samuel H. Elbert, Hawaiian Dictionary, University of Hawaii Press 1971, page 183
• Hawaii State Archives: Marriage records Mika occurs in 19th-century marriage records as the only name (mononym) of 1 woman and 3 men.

Mika

1. Rōmaji transcription of みか

Clipping of Micael.

Mika m

1. a diminutive of the male given name Micael

• IPA^(key): /mîka/

Mȉka m anim (Cyrillic spelling Ми̏ка)

1. a male given name

• “Mika”, in Portal suvremenih hrvatskih osobnih imena [Portal of contemporary Croatian personal names] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2018–2025

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Mika

1. (biblical) Micah (book of the Old Testament of the Bible)

Mika c (genitive Mikas)

1. Micah (biblical book and prophet)

   Synonym: (abbreviation) Mik

Borrowed from English Mika, from Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh), shortened form of מִיכַיְהוּ (mīḵāyᵊhū, “who is like Yahweh”).

Mika

1. Micah
   2. (biblical) A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh.
   3. (biblical) Any of several men in the Old Testament:
      2. The minor prophet and author of the Book of Micah.
      3. An Ephraimite featured in Judges 17–18 and protagonist of the Micah’s idol narrative.

• Bible Society of Malawi, New Tumbuka Bible