Meaning not yet researched.
Micaiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 133 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,274 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,274 in 2001; #1,386 in 2025. About 80% of babies named Micaiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,386 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #1,274.
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Micaiah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 133 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,274 in 2001 · most boys in one year: 139 (2014).
In 2025, 133 US boys were named Micaiah, making it the 1,386th most common boys’ name of the year, up 173 places from #1,559 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 112 boys named Micaiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,274, reached in 2001. The most boys given the name in a single year was 139, in 2014. For comparison, it was #1,636 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Micaiah, making it the 4,240th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,158 places from #5,398 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 24 girls named Micaiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,226, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 73. For comparison, it was #3,332 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Micaiah in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 5 babies. In all, 4,637 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,552 babies named Micaiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,110 US boys were named Micaiah; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 133. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,843 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Micaiah ranked highest in Virginia in 2025, at #771 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Micah (133,606 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikaiyah 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: Mikaiyah (10).
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 Micaiah in the open dataset we use.
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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 9 | #771 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #820 | — |
| Michigan | 8 | #882 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #980 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,003 | — |
| Florida | 13 | #1,039 | #1,350 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,087 | #969 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,232 | #1,090 |
| Texas | 13 | #1,456 | #1,612 |
| California | 9 | #1,771 | #1,717 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,240 | 133 | #1,386 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,398 | 112 | #1,559 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,529 | 130 | #1,412 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,581 | 103 | #1,672 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,598 | 97 | #1,697 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,214 | 124 | #1,406 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,121 | 93 | #1,710 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,380 | 92 | #1,714 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,897 | 99 | #1,617 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,686 | 127 | #1,387 |
| 2015 | 49 | #3,332 | 98 | #1,636 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,699 | 139 | #1,281 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,827 | 124 | #1,366 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,409 | 101 | #1,570 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,162 | 105 | #1,519 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,397 | 91 | #1,696 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,783 | 100 | #1,601 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,879 | 75 | #1,927 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,114 | 102 | #1,547 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,805 | 80 | #1,753 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,777 | 65 | #1,958 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,577 | 76 | #1,695 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,404 | 90 | #1,462 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,694 | 80 | #1,554 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,226 | 105 | #1,274 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,230 | 51 | #2,006 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,887 | 60 | #1,730 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,335 | 48 | #2,007 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,509 | 44 | #2,050 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,794 | 33 | #2,412 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,162 | 35 | #2,280 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,895 | 19 | #3,552 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,332 | 23 | #2,996 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,354 | 20 | #3,300 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,064 | 27 | #2,585 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,974 | 24 | #2,751 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,767 | 14 | #3,948 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,139 | 15 | #3,465 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,755 | 15 | #3,289 |
| 1986 | — | — | 5 | #7,447 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,181 | 5 | #7,227 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,076 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,363 | 7 | #5,281 |
| 1982 | — | — | 13 | #3,424 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,291 |
| 1980 | — | — | 9 | #4,380 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,859 |
| 1978 | — | — | 17 | #2,627 |
| 1977 | — | — | 15 | #2,865 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,292 | 5 | #6,171 |
| 1975 | — | — | 6 | #5,231 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,611 |
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).