Meaning not yet researched.
Mikah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 107 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,090 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,090 in 2009; #1,594 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Mikah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,594 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #1,090.
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Mikah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 107 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,090 in 2009 · most boys in one year: 171 (2009).
In 2025, 107 US boys were named Mikah, making it the 1,594th most common boys’ name of the year, up 24 places from #1,618 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 106 boys named Mikah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,090, reached in 2009. That year also had the most boys given the name: 171. For comparison, it was #1,432 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 25 US girls were named Mikah, making it the 5,183rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 736 places from #4,447 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 32 girls named Mikah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,305, reached in 2004. That year also had the most girls given the name: 76. For comparison, it was #2,988 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikah in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 5,061 US babies have been given the name, 33% of them girls and 67% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,830 babies named Mikah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,241 US boys were named Mikah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 141. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,963 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikah ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #944 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), Mika (8,114 babies since 1880), Mica (3,695 babies since 1880) and Myka (3,255 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikaiah, Mikayah and Meekah 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: Mikaiah (171), Mikayah (141), Meekah (85), Mekkah (26).
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 Mikah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #944 | #1,641 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,204 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,371 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,388 | #1,427 |
| California | 9 | #1,775 | #1,599 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,183 | 107 | #1,594 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,447 | 106 | #1,618 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,955 | 130 | #1,413 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,753 | 141 | #1,336 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,066 | 138 | #1,344 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,513 | 125 | #1,394 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,892 | 121 | #1,446 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,307 | 112 | #1,524 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,334 | 129 | #1,375 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,833 | 132 | #1,353 |
| 2015 | 58 | #2,988 | 120 | #1,432 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,523 | 126 | #1,359 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,963 | 166 | #1,109 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,965 | 140 | #1,262 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,935 | 144 | #1,215 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,929 | 145 | #1,225 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,284 | 171 | #1,090 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,760 | 141 | #1,237 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,116 | 130 | #1,321 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,661 | 109 | #1,434 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,497 | 108 | #1,387 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,305 | 86 | #1,547 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,217 | 71 | #1,730 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,766 | 74 | #1,633 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,729 | 53 | #2,021 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,584 | 39 | #2,461 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,417 | 41 | #2,253 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,790 | 40 | #2,261 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,758 | 21 | #3,424 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,275 | 28 | #2,725 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,841 | 21 | #3,270 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,966 | 18 | #3,705 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,554 | 24 | #2,916 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,411 | 10 | #5,521 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,935 | 10 | #5,378 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,159 | 7 | #6,916 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,034 | 9 | #5,451 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,501 | 10 | #4,661 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,079 | 9 | #4,822 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,939 | 12 | #3,800 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,351 | 7 | #5,557 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,125 | 7 | #5,370 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,534 | — | — |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,689 | 6 | #6,139 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,168 | 5 | #6,936 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,183 | 7 | #5,312 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,297 | 6 | #5,814 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,810 | — | — |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,940 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,298 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,902 | — | — |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,734 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,497 |
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).