Micaiah
#4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births · #1,382 for boys in 2025, 133 births
Given to boys 66.5% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2001 · 105 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,085since 1973
Micaiah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 | #1,382 | 133 |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | #1,556 | 112 |
| 2023 | #4,454 | 31 | #1,408 | 130 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 | #1,665 | 103 |
| 2021 | #3,553 | 43 | #1,688 | 97 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | #1,398 | 124 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 | #1,698 | 93 |
| 2018 | #3,346 | 47 | #1,707 | 92 |
| 2017 | #3,848 | 39 | #1,612 | 99 |
| 2016 | #2,667 | 65 | #1,386 | 127 |
| 2015 | #3,299 | 49 | #1,625 | 98 |
| 2014 | #3,652 | 42 | #1,276 | 139 |
| 2013 | #3,778 | 40 | #1,361 | 124 |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | #1,562 | 101 |
| 2011 | #3,132 | 53 | #1,516 | 105 |
| 2010 | #3,360 | 48 | #1,687 | 91 |
| 2009 | #3,737 | 42 | #1,594 | 100 |
| 2008 | #2,855 | 62 | #1,916 | 75 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | #1,539 | 102 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 | #1,738 | 80 |
| 2005 | #2,756 | 60 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #2,556 | 65 | #1,687 | 76 |
| 2003 | #2,393 | 69 | #1,451 | 90 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | #1,543 | 80 |
| 2001 | #2,211 | 73 | #1,265 | 105 |
| 2000 | #2,213 | 71 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 | #1,720 | 60 |
| 1998 | #3,301 | 37 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1997 | #3,448 | 33 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #3,723 | 29 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #2,253 | 35 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #2,943 | 23 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 | #2,695 | 24 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 | #3,809 | 14 |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #3,350 | 15 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | — | #3,282 | 13 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #4,134 | 9 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,568 | 17 | |
| 1977 | — | #2,791 | 15 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1973
The first year at least five boys were named Micaiah! It came in at #5,101, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1973–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 174 spots since 2024 (#1,556 → #1,382)
- 16 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,382)
- 243 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #1,382)
Rise & fade · boys
28 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2001 at #1,265 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 12,843
- Highest: 1 in 12,843 boys born in 2025 were named Micaiah (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,265 in 2001, was only 1 in 18,504 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 34.7% of all boys named Micaiah (1,069) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2001
- Mostly girls until 2000, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 64 | #2,568 (1978) | #3,937 |
| 1980s | 96 | #3,201 (1987) | #4,645 |
| 1990s | 333 | #1,720 (1999) | #2,524 |
| 2000s | 824 | #1,265 (2001) | #1,667 |
| 2010s | 1,069 | #1,276 (2014) | #1,543 |
| 2020s | 699 | #1,382 (2025) | #1,516 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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