Micah
Micah is ranked 86th among boys in 2024 (3,909 births). Its best rank was 86th, in 2024.
- Rank in 2024
- #86up 1 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3,9090.23% of boys
- Peak year
- 20223,964 births
- Best rank
- #86in 2024
- Since 1946
- 129,443people given the name
The story in the numbers
115,705 boys have been named Micah in the United States since 1946, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 3,964 births — 0.23% of all boys recorded that year.
It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2022, within the last few years of data.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2009, and the 2010s alone account for 32%. It has spent 66 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 3 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 13,738 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Micah | |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 27 | |
| 1950s | 238 | |
| 1960s | 1,135 | |
| 1970s | 6,979 | |
| 1980s | 11,035 | |
| 1990s | 13,753 | |
| 2000s | 27,017 | |
| 2010s | 36,726 | |
| 2020s | 18,795 |
In 2022, its biggest year
Micah was the 89th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.
Names that rose and fell with Micah
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Yechielpeak 2024
- Amarpeak 2023
- Yisroelpeak 2019
- Yehoshuapeak 2019
- Damianpeak 2013
- Avrohompeak 2021
- Moshepeak 2023
- Mustafapeak 2024
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.