Primarily a boy's name · Unisex — 11% girls / 89% boys
Micah is a given name. Micah is the name of several people in the Tanakh, and means "Who is like God?”. The name is sometimes found with theophoric extensions. Suffix theophory in Yah and in Yahweh results in Michaiah or Michaihu, meaning who is like Yahweh?
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Micah yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Micah barely moved over the past decade, up just 7% to 3,909 births in 2024 — count and rank both landing on fresh highs the same year, #86 nationally.
Its records start in 1946, sixty-six years after the dataset begins, a short history for a name with biblical roots.
Just two names show up as namesakes — footballer Micah Richards and comedian Katt Williams, born Micah Sierra Williams — a thin record for gains this gradual, and total US births for the name reach 129,443 since 1946.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 5 | #3,846 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,084 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,858 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,929 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,213 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,124 |
| 1953 | 12 | #2,361 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,089 |
| 1955 | 26 | #1,527 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,629 |
| 1957 | 22 | #1,742 |
| 1958 | 31 | #1,414 |
| 1959 | 65 | #960 |
| 1960 | 73 | #892 |
| 1961 | 103 | #761 |
| 1962 | 110 | #731 |
| 1963 | 95 | #783 |
| 1964 | 96 | #773 |
| 1965 | 117 | #691 |
| 1966 | 108 | #717 |
| 1967 | 129 | #656 |
| 1968 | 130 | #661 |
| 1969 | 174 | #592 |
| 1970 | 225 | #540 |
| 1971 | 269 | #490 |
| 1972 | 373 | #407 |
| 1973 | 527 | #327 |
| 1974 | 694 | #272 |
| 1975 | 790 | #254 |
| 1976 | 900 | #226 |
| 1977 | 1,051 | #211 |
| 1978 | 1,006 | #215 |
| 1979 | 1,144 | #205 |
| 1980 | 1,048 | #228 |
| 1981 | 1,168 | #213 |
| 1982 | 1,123 | #216 |
| 1983 | 1,039 | #220 |
| 1984 | 1,113 | #207 |
| 1985 | 1,147 | #208 |
| 1986 | 1,101 | #217 |
| 1987 | 1,064 | #224 |
| 1988 | 1,114 | #224 |
| 1989 | 1,118 | #237 |
| 1990 | 1,180 | #238 |
| 1991 | 1,136 | #245 |
| 1992 | 1,195 | #242 |
| 1993 | 1,203 | #240 |
| 1994 | 1,169 | #246 |
| 1995 | 1,391 | #212 |
| 1996 | 1,478 | #210 |
| 1997 | 1,570 | #202 |
| 1998 | 1,692 | #199 |
| 1999 | 1,739 | #195 |
| 2000 | 1,975 | #186 |
| 2001 | 2,113 | #178 |
| 2002 | 2,224 | #173 |
| 2003 | 2,286 | #173 |
| 2004 | 2,489 | #161 |
| 2005 | 2,714 | #150 |
| 2006 | 2,841 | #145 |
| 2007 | 3,307 | #126 |
| 2008 | 3,527 | #121 |
| 2009 | 3,541 | #118 |
| 2010 | 3,570 | #108 |
| 2011 | 3,771 | #102 |
| 2012 | 3,764 | #103 |
| 2013 | 3,700 | #105 |
| 2014 | 3,666 | #109 |
| 2015 | 3,766 | #105 |
| 2016 | 3,496 | #115 |
| 2017 | 3,710 | #107 |
| 2018 | 3,777 | #103 |
| 2019 | 3,506 | #110 |
| 2020 | 3,410 | #106 |
| 2021 | 3,623 | #107 |
| 2022 | 3,964 | #89 |
| 2023 | 3,889 | #87 |
| 2024 | 3,909 | #86 |
