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.
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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 27,262 of them was named Micaiah, which outranked 85.9% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,643Shaila66
- #2,643Symone66
- #2,643Zayleigh66
- #2,667Micaiah65
- #2,667Adison65
- #2,667Aja65
- #2,667Alona65
- #2,697Ahana64
- #2,697Alaiya64
- #2,697Aleyda64
Tied with 29 names at #2,667; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 14,943 of them was named Micaiah, which outranked 90.2% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).