Micaiah
Feminine · “who is like the Lord?”
Micaiah is given to both — 1,552 girls and 3,085 boys since 1880. See Micaiah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Micaiah is the fuller Hebrew form of Micah, and it belongs to a prophet who tells a king exactly what he does not want to hear and is imprisoned for it.
How old is the name Micaiah?
Micaiah first appears in US birth records in 1976 — 49 years ago. The typical Micaiah alive today was born around 2008, making them about 17 years old. About 1,500 people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Micaiah most popular?
Micaiah peaked in 2001, reaching #2211 nationally. Today it ranks #4172, 1,961 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mikhayahu to Micaiah
The story of Micaiah
Micaiah ben Imlah appears in the book of Kings: four hundred prophets tell the king he will win, and Micaiah is fetched reluctantly and says the opposite. He is slapped and jailed and the king dies in the battle anyway. It is one of the sharper set-pieces in the historical books. The name is used for both sexes in American records and appears from the 1990s.
Meaning
who is like the Lord?
From Hebrew mi, who, kha, like, and a form of the divine name; Micah is the contracted form and Michael the same question with the other word for God. The question is rhetorical and the answer is nobody.
How the name formed
- Mikhayahu
- Micaiah
Related forms: Mikhayahu · Micah · Michaela
Pronouncing Micaiah
my-KY-ah
Three syllables with the stress in the middle. Some families say mih-KAY-ah.
Nicknames for Micaiah
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1976
- Most girls named
- 200173 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2211reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- +41.7%34 in 2025, from 24
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Micaiah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mikhayahu in Hebrew — same name
- Micah in English — related form
- Michaela in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Georgia.
Micaiahs among us
people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 47,273 born in 2025 was named Micaiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Micaiah
- #4172
- Micaiah on the 2025 chart
- #919
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Micaiah went to 34 girls in 2025, but Mikaiah is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 41, which makes it the 919th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,253 places above the chart.
- Micaiah34
- Mikaiah7
About 1 girl in 39,202 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,273 for Micaiah itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Talena test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Micaiah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Talena climbed just as high around 1976, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Talena's path sketches the road Micaiah is walking now.
Micaiah sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Micaiah is headed
Micaiah is easing off slowly — about 24% fewer babies a year by 2030 if the trend continues. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.
Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Micaiah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Micaiah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled meaning that is a complete question with a known answer.
- A documented prophet with a genuinely memorable scene behind him.
- Kaia and Mica are both usable short forms.
- It is used for both sexes, so forms may guess wrong.
- The stress is unsettled between two readings.
- Micaiah, Michaiah and Micah are all in use and get confused.
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Frequently asked
- How many Micaiahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,500 people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Micaiah?
- Micaiah is the most-used spelling in US records — 34 of the 41 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Mikaiah.
- How popular is the name Micaiah in 2025?
- Micaiah ranks #4172 among US girl names in 2025, with 34 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Micaiah?
- About 1 in every 47,273 US girls born in 2025 was named Micaiah — 34 in all.
- Will my child share the name Micaiah with classmates?
- Micaiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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