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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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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.
Where Micaiah is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Virginia#645 · 1 in 5,784
- North Carolina#921 · 1 in 10,053
- Ohio#989 · 1 in 13,401
- California#1,602 · 1 in 30,632
Best ever in a state: #524 in South Carolina, 2004.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Virginia | #645 | 7 | 1 in 5,784 |
| North Carolina | #921 | 5 | 1 in 10,053 |
| Ohio | #989 | 5 | 1 in 13,401 |
| California | #1,602 | 8 | 1 in 30,632 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Micaiah
- 174 spots since 2024 (#1,556 → #1,382)
- 16 spots since 2020 (#1,398 → #1,382)
- 243 spots since 2015 (#1,625 → #1,382)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 2001 at #1,265 (105 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 34.7% of all boys named Micaiah (1,069) were born in this decade
- 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.
Micaiah in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 31,524 of them was named Micaiah, which outranked 85.2% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,642Taylin58
- #2,642Viola58
- #2,642Zahria58
- #2,673Micaiah57
- #2,673Ajah57
- #2,673Aleisha57
- #2,673Alise57
- #2,709Alijah56
- #2,709Analicia56
- #2,709Anela56
Tied with 35 names at #2,673; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 24,269 of them was named Micaiah, which outranked 87.6% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,529Lenny81
- #1,529Mikal81
- #1,529Yoel81
- #1,543Micaiah80
- #1,543Abhinav80
- #1,543Adnan80
- #1,543Chauncey80
- #1,557Arik79
- #1,557Arya79
- #1,557Christofer79
Tied with 13 names at #1,543; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.