Micah
About 133,606 American babies have been named Micah since 1946, most of them around 2022. In 2025 it ranked 90th. About 131,000 Micahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Micah boys named Micah
Girls and boys called Micah
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 14,035 girls and 119,571 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 291 to 3,817.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 70 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 133,606
- Estimated living today
- 131,000
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2022
- Best rank
- 89th
- Rank in 2025
- 90th
- First recorded
- 1946
- Girls / boys
- 14,035 / 119,571
How old the living Micahs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 133,606 babies given the name since 1946, about 131,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 71,000 of them are children and 280 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin the Bible, from Hebrew
From Hebrew מִיכָה, shortened form of מִיכַיְהוּ (“who is like Yahweh”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Micahs
- Micah Richards (born 1988)English footballer
- Micah Christenson (born 1993)American volleyball player
- Micah Kogo (born 1986)Kenyan long-distance runner
- Micah Sloat (born 1981)American actor
- Micah Boyd (born 1982)American rower
- Micah Parsons (born 1999)American football player
- Micah Hamilton (born 2003)English association football player
People named Micah with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Micah is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Micah is most concentrated in Hawaii (4.8×), Alaska (2.4×), Nevada (1.6×), Washington (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2022
The most popular boys’ names the year Micah peaked:
Micah elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Micah | 3,976 | 189th |
| New Zealand boys | Micah | 341 | 43rd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Micah | 323 | 86th |
| France boys | Micah | 195 | 1,576th |
| Scotland boys | Micah | 181 | 231st |
| England and Wales girls | Micah | 170 | 1,914th |
| Belgium boys | Micah | 75 | 773rd |
| Switzerland boys | Micah | 72 | 904th |
| Ireland boys | Micah | 70 | 374th |
| Poland boys | Micah | 7 birth registrations | 510th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Micah: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Micah | 55 | 0.004% | 737th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Micah | 16 | 0.004% | 458th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Micah | 1 | 0.002% | 188th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Micah: rank by region
In 2023, Micah was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Micah | 571 | 9 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Micah by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 4 | 566th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Micah among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Micah | 34 | 44 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Micah against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.