Meaning not yet researched.
Micah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 3,817 in 2025. Its best rank was #86 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #86 in 2024; #90 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Micah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#90 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #86.
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Micah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 3,817 boys in 2025. Peak: #86 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 3,969 (2022).
In 2025, 3,817 US boys were named Micah, making it the 90th most common boys’ name of the year, down 4 places from #86 in 2024. That is 107 fewer than the 3,924 boys named Micah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #86, reached in 2024. The most boys given the name in a single year was 3,969, in 2022. For comparison, it was #105 in 2015 and #1,929 in 1950.
In 2025, 291 US girls were named Micah, making it the 909th most common girls’ name of the year, down 69 places from #840 in 2024. That is 31 fewer than the 322 girls named Micah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #582, reached in 1998. The most girls given the name in a single year was 421, in 1999. For comparison, it was #841 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Micah in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1946 with 5 babies. In all, 133,606 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 39,653 babies named Micah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 37,149 US boys were named Micah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 3,969. In 2025 that was about 1 in 447 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Micah ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #41 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 30 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Mika (8,114 babies since 1880), Mikah (5,061 babies since 1880), Micaiah (4,637 babies since 1880) and Mica (3,695 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikai, Myca and Micai are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mikai (782), Myca (339), Micai (121), Micca (74), Miccah (54), Micahya (46), Meca (45), Micayah (43), Mekah (36), Micahi (23), Micaya (22), Meikah (12), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Micah in the open dataset we use.
Micah is listed as a nickname for Michael.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 2 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 18 | #41 | #76 |
| Alaska | 14 | #51 | #101 |
| Georgia | 173 | #56 | #71 |
| South Dakota | 18 | #61 | #91 |
| Pennsylvania | 184 | #62 | #104 |
| New Mexico | 26 | #69 | #121 |
| North Carolina | 162 | #71 | #89 |
| Mississippi | 35 | #72 | #82 |
| Indiana | 100 | #72 | #109 |
| Oklahoma | 55 | #74 | #146 |
| Virginia | 115 | #75 | #93 |
| Maryland | 72 | #75 | #97 |
| Ohio | 148 | #79 | #93 |
| South Carolina | 62 | #82 | #83 |
| Florida | 246 | #84 | #103 |
| Minnesota | 71 | #84 | #87 |
| Texas | 441 | #88 | #128 |
| Michigan | 104 | #89 | #110 |
| Colorado | 76 | #89 | #94 |
| Delaware | 12 | #89 | #169 |
| Iowa | 40 | #91 | #89 |
| District of Columbia | 10 | #91 | #74 |
| Alabama | 57 | #91 | #82 |
| Louisiana | 53 | #93 | #123 |
| Washington | 83 | #93 | #101 |
| West Virginia | 21 | #93 | #149 |
| Nevada | 32 | #95 | #199 |
| Wisconsin | 63 | #95 | #82 |
| Tennessee | 90 | #97 | #108 |
| Kentucky | 54 | #100 | #103 |
| Arkansas | 33 | #101 | #149 |
| Arizona | 79 | #104 | #133 |
| California | 394 | #106 | #126 |
| Nebraska | 24 | #111 | #122 |
| Illinois | 106 | #113 | #119 |
| Kansas | 33 | #116 | #118 |
| Missouri | 61 | #117 | #125 |
| New Hampshire | 13 | #118 | #116 |
| New York | 155 | #121 | #150 |
| Idaho | 21 | #122 | #94 |
| Oregon | 33 | #125 | #119 |
| New Jersey | 74 | #131 | #184 |
| Utah | 40 | #132 | #146 |
| Massachusetts | 53 | #138 | #142 |
| Connecticut | 27 | #139 | #176 |
| North Dakota | 9 | #146 | #115 |
| Maine | 7 | #194 | #211 |
| Rhode Island | 6 | #194 | #167 |
| Montana | 6 | #221 | #227 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 291 | #909 | 3,817 | #90 |
| 2024 | 322 | #840 | 3,924 | #86 |
| 2023 | 251 | #1,010 | 3,897 | #87 |
| 2022 | 217 | #1,130 | 3,969 | #89 |
| 2021 | 268 | #970 | 3,630 | #107 |
| 2020 | 238 | #1,052 | 3,414 | #106 |
| 2019 | 281 | #941 | 3,509 | #109 |
| 2018 | 272 | #973 | 3,780 | #103 |
| 2017 | 268 | #977 | 3,711 | #107 |
| 2016 | 281 | #964 | 3,498 | #115 |
| 2015 | 334 | #841 | 3,767 | #105 |
| 2014 | 270 | #990 | 3,666 | #109 |
| 2013 | 294 | #878 | 3,700 | #105 |
| 2012 | 307 | #870 | 3,765 | #103 |
| 2011 | 288 | #909 | 3,772 | #102 |
| 2010 | 319 | #843 | 3,571 | #108 |
| 2009 | 348 | #813 | 3,541 | #118 |
| 2008 | 313 | #889 | 3,528 | #121 |
| 2007 | 379 | #768 | 3,307 | #126 |
| 2006 | 401 | #712 | 2,841 | #145 |
| 2005 | 295 | #857 | 2,714 | #150 |
| 2004 | 344 | #759 | 2,489 | #161 |
| 2003 | 371 | #706 | 2,286 | #173 |
| 2002 | 397 | #641 | 2,224 | #173 |
| 2001 | 399 | #629 | 2,113 | #178 |
| 2000 | 393 | #636 | 1,975 | #186 |
| 1999 | 421 | #586 | 1,739 | #195 |
| 1998 | 415 | #582 | 1,692 | #199 |
| 1997 | 369 | #613 | 1,570 | #202 |
| 1996 | 359 | #627 | 1,478 | #210 |
| 1995 | 348 | #629 | 1,392 | #212 |
| 1994 | 289 | #718 | 1,169 | #246 |
| 1993 | 278 | #747 | 1,203 | #240 |
| 1992 | 270 | #769 | 1,195 | #242 |
| 1991 | 252 | #815 | 1,136 | #245 |
| 1990 | 212 | #908 | 1,180 | #238 |
| 1989 | 179 | #975 | 1,118 | #237 |
| 1988 | 210 | #855 | 1,114 | #224 |
| 1987 | 189 | #892 | 1,064 | #224 |
| 1986 | 184 | #894 | 1,101 | #217 |
| 1985 | 166 | #943 | 1,147 | #208 |
| 1984 | 175 | #872 | 1,113 | #207 |
| 1983 | 162 | #924 | 1,038 | #220 |
| 1982 | 153 | #969 | 1,123 | #216 |
| 1981 | 165 | #910 | 1,165 | #213 |
| 1980 | 133 | #1,067 | 1,048 | #228 |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,044 | 1,144 | #205 |
| 1978 | 146 | #957 | 1,006 | #215 |
| 1977 | 104 | #1,190 | 1,051 | #211 |
| 1976 | 98 | #1,170 | 900 | #226 |
| 1975 | 80 | #1,345 | 790 | #254 |
| 1974 | 81 | #1,321 | 694 | #272 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,678 | 527 | #327 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,013 | 373 | #407 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,522 | 269 | #490 |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,832 | 225 | #539 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,980 | 173 | #596 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,554 | 130 | #661 |
| 1967 | 14 | #3,597 | 129 | #656 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,117 | 108 | #717 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,120 | 117 | #691 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,032 | 96 | #773 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,961 | 95 | #783 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,765 | 110 | #732 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,782 | 103 | #761 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,524 | 73 | #891 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,216 | 65 | #960 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,108 | 31 | #1,414 |
| 1957 | — | — | 22 | #1,742 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,580 | 24 | #1,629 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,283 | 26 | #1,527 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,547 | 15 | #2,089 |
| 1953 | — | — | 12 | #2,361 |
| 1952 | — | — | 14 | #2,124 |
| 1951 | — | — | 13 | #2,213 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,929 |
| 1949 | — | — | 17 | #1,858 |
| 1947 | — | — | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,847 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).