Micah
For 2025 the count puts Micah at #90 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. First recorded 1946, best year 2022, 119,571 bearers across the whole run.
What Micah carries
Micah · Hebrew
“who is like the Lord”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Micah’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Micah, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Micah since 1946
Micah peaked in 2022 at #89; #90 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Micah is most common
The state that gives Micah most often, per boys born there, is Hawaii (0.62% in 2025); Alaska and South Dakota are close behind.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Micah
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Matteo
#146 in 2025 · Hebrew
Miguel
#212 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jonah
#128 in 2025 · Hebrew
Josiah
#54 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jude
#155 in 2025 · Hebrew
Isaac
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Naomi
#47 in 2025 · Hebrew
Judah
#178 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Micah
How popular is the name Micah?
For 2025 the count puts Micah at #90 nationwide, at or near its all-time peak. The chart above draws the whole run since 1946, from the Social Security Administration's public data.
Does Micah have a meaning on record?
The gloss on record reads “who is like the Lord”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Micah?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Matteo sits closest, with Miguel and Jonah just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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