Micaiah
Masculine · “Who is like Yahweh?”
Micaiah is given to both — 3,085 boys and 1,552 girls since 1880. See Micaiah as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Micaiah is the fuller, older form of a name most people meet in its short version, Micah — three syllables built around a question the Hebrew Bible asks again and again: who is like the Lord? It belongs to a prophet in the Book of Kings who told a king the truth he did not want, and it has come down through English Bibles for four centuries with its shape intact.
How old is the name Micaiah?
Micaiah first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Micaiah alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 3,000 people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Micaiah most popular?
Micaiah peaked in 2001, reaching #1265 nationally. Today it ranks #1382, 117 places below that high. See the whole 2001 chart.
Where it comes from
From Mikhayahu to Micaiah
The story of Micaiah
The Hebrew name is Mikhayahu, joining mi kha ('who is like') to a form of the divine name. It belongs to Micaiah son of Imlah, the prophet who appears in 1 Kings 22 and again in 2 Chronicles, summoned by Ahab and Jehoshaphat to prophesy and refusing to say what was wanted. Greek translators rendered it Michaias, and English Bible translators settled on the spellings Micaiah and Michaiah, which is why both still appear in concordances. Micah, the short prophetic name with a book of its own, is the same name with the divine element clipped away — which makes Micaiah the long form of a name Americans already know well.
Meaning
Who is like Yahweh?
A theophoric name — one built around the divine name — and the same rhetorical question that stands behind Michael.
How the name formed
- Mikhayahu
- Michaias
- Michaiah
- Micaiah
- Micah
Related forms: Mikhayahu · Michaias · Michaiah · Micah · Michaeas · Michael
Pronouncing Micaiah
mih-KY-uh
Also said mih-KAY-uh, and both pronunciations circulate in English-speaking churches. Neither is a mistake, but a family is wise to pick one and say it first when introducing him.
Nicknames for Micaiah
High
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
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 2014139 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1265reached in 2001
- Change vs 2024
- +18.8%133 in 2025, from 112
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 — transliteration
- Michaias in Greek (Septuagint) — same name
- Michaiah in English — spelling variant
- Micah in English — related form
- Michaeas in Latin (Vulgate) — same name
- Michael in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Micaiahs among us
people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 12,843 born in 2025 was named Micaiah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Merrell 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: Merrell climbed just as high around 1915, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Merrell'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 should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium 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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Comes with Micah already attached — a short form that needs no explaining and works as a full name on its own.
- Anchored in a named biblical prophet, with an unbroken written record in English Bibles since the sixteenth century.
- Sits inside a family of names Americans hear constantly — Michael, Micah, Michaela — so it sounds familiar even to people meeting it for the first time.
- Has never been common enough to date to a particular era, and its use has held steady rather than spiking.
- Two pronunciations are genuinely in use, mih-KY-uh and mih-KAY-uh, so he will correct people occasionally throughout his life.
- The spelling competes with Michaiah, Mikaiah and the far more common Micah; expect to spell it out on forms and to see Micah written back at you.
- He is unlikely to meet another one in a classroom. That means no last-initial problem, and also that the name will always need a moment of introduction.
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Masculine · #1382 in the U.S.
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 3,000 people named Micaiah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Micaiah in 2025?
- Micaiah ranks #1382 among US boy names in 2025, with 133 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Micaiah?
- About 1 in every 12,843 US boys born in 2025 was named Micaiah — 133 in all.
- Will my child share the name Micaiah with classmates?
- Micaiah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Micaiah
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