Michaela
English
Etymology
Micheal + -a. Latinate feminine form of Michael, first appearing as an anglicisation of the Portuguese ("Micaela") and Spanish ("Micaela"). Doublet of Michelle.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /mɪˈkeɪ.lə/
Proper noun
Michaela
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- 1897 Clarissa Joy Suraji (=Grant Allen), The Type-writer Girl, Street & Smith (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."
- 1897 Clarissa Joy Suraji (=Grant Allen), The Type-writer Girl, Street & Smith (1900), page 227:
Usage notes
- 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.
Translations
feminine form of Michael
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Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɪxaɛla]
Declension
This proper noun needs an inflection-table template.
German
Etymology
Feminine form of Michael taken into general use in the 20th century.
Pronunciation
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Usage notes
- Popular in Germany in the 1960s and the 1970s.
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmixaela]
Proper noun
Michaela f (genitive singular Michaely, nominative plural Michaely, declension pattern of žena)
- a female given name
Declension
Further reading
- Michaela in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk
Swedish
Etymology
Less common spelling of Mikaela. First recorded as a given name in Sweden in 1843.
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