Meaning not yet researched.
Micha: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,886 in 1977.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,886 in 1977; #4,489 in 2025. About 77% of babies named Micha in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,489 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1977, at #1,886.
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Micha: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,886 in 1977 · most boys in one year: 39 (2011).
In 2025, 23 US boys were named Micha, making it the 4,489th most common boys’ name of the year, up 168 places from #4,657 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 22 boys named Micha in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,886, reached in 1977. The most boys given the name in a single year was 39, in 2011. For comparison, it was #4,655 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Micha, making it the 12,743rd most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,948 places from #14,691 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Micha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,597, reached in 1977. The most girls given the name in a single year was 38, in 1990. For comparison, it was #5,962 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Micha in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1955 with 7 babies. In all, 2,366 US babies have been given the name, 51% of them girls and 49% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 483 babies named Micha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 220 US boys were named Micha; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 74,264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Michae, Miqueas and Michah 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch and Hebrew. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Michae (544), Miqueas (435), Michah (397), Michai (323), Mikhai (158), Michaya (48), Michea (30), Mikha (24), Michaee (20), Mycha (18), Mecha (12), Michaia (5).
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 Micha in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,743 | 23 | #4,489 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,691 | 22 | #4,657 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,595 | 22 | #4,688 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,893 | 29 | #3,837 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,684 | 21 | #4,718 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,270 | 25 | #4,103 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,454 | 21 | #4,750 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,351 | 18 | #5,244 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,393 | 23 | #4,420 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,268 | 16 | #5,699 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,962 | 21 | #4,655 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,358 | 26 | #3,978 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,434 | 25 | #4,026 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,839 | 23 | #4,343 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,323 | 39 | #2,980 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,070 | 29 | #3,687 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,735 | 34 | #3,311 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,695 | 28 | #3,798 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,256 | 36 | #3,169 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,735 | 17 | #5,232 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,796 | 13 | #6,105 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,496 | 28 | #3,425 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,331 | 24 | #3,693 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,609 | 21 | #3,996 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,680 | 26 | #3,377 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,925 | 28 | #3,126 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,360 | 27 | #3,073 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,515 | 16 | #4,334 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,346 | 18 | #3,833 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,603 | 10 | #5,830 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,641 | 13 | #4,709 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,502 | 13 | #4,710 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,646 | 17 | #3,765 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,177 | 12 | #4,764 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,899 | 15 | #3,954 |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,001 | 20 | #3,131 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,082 | 14 | #3,949 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,858 | 14 | #3,641 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,141 | 19 | #2,793 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,842 | 14 | #3,375 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,055 | 18 | #2,790 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,434 | 24 | #2,214 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,395 | 17 | #2,753 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,974 | 25 | #2,147 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,959 | 19 | #2,547 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,468 | 22 | #2,336 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,740 | 14 | #3,112 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,165 | 14 | #3,024 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,597 | 27 | #1,886 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,510 | 17 | #2,571 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,474 | 18 | #2,417 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,810 | 17 | #2,425 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,193 | 8 | #3,945 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,450 | 15 | #2,504 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,248 | — | — |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,525 | 9 | #3,440 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,628 | 6 | #4,252 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,025 | 7 | #3,573 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,539 | 7 | #3,448 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,313 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,630 | 6 | #3,801 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,430 |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,161 | — | — |
| 1962 | — | — | 9 | #2,984 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,922 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,905 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,736 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,581 | — | — |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,046 | — | — |
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).