Micha
Masculine · “who is like the Lord?”
Micha is given to both — 1,170 boys and 1,196 girls since 1880. See Micha as a girl nameSee other names given to both
They shall beat their swords into plowshares appears twice in the Hebrew Bible, in Isaiah and in Micah, in almost identical words. Nobody knows which prophet said it first, or whether both were quoting something older. It is one of the great unresolved questions of biblical scholarship and one of the most quoted lines in the world.
How old is the name Micha?
Micha first appears in US birth records in 1961 — 64 years ago. The typical Micha alive today was born around 2001, making them about 24 years old. About 1,100 people named Micha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Micha most popular?
Micha peaked in 1977, reaching #1858 nationally. Today it ranks #4396, 2,538 places below that high. See the whole 1977 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mikhayahu to Micha
The story of Micha
Micah is one of the twelve minor prophets, a countryman writing about the exploitation of the poor by people in the capital, and his book is short and angry. Two things from it are permanently in the language. The swords-into-plowshares passage is shared word for word with Isaiah, and scholars have argued for two centuries about the direction of borrowing without settling it. And chapter six asks what the Lord requires and answers in one line — to do justice, to love mercy, and to walk humbly — which is quoted constantly by people who have never opened the book. The name is Michael's question with the shorter form of the divine name.
Meaning
who is like the Lord?
Hebrew Mikhah, a shortened form of Mikhayahu — mi, who, kha, like, yahu, the Lord. It is the same question as Michael with a different divine element at the end. Micha is the standard German and Dutch spelling and is a man's name there.
How the name formed
- Mikhayahu
- Mikhah
- Micha
Related forms: Micha · Micha · Micha
Pronouncing Micha
MY-kuh
Two syllables, stress on the first. German and Dutch say MEE-khah, with a short first vowel and a throat sound in the middle. Hebrew stresses the second syllable, mee-KHAH.
Nicknames for Micha
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
- 1961
- Most boys named
- 201139 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1858reached in 1977
- Change vs 2024
- +4.5%23 in 2025, from 22
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.
Micha in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Micha in German — same name
- Micha in Dutch — same name
- Micha in Hebrew — same name
Michas among us
people named Micha are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 74,264 born in 2025 was named Micha
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 Davied test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Micha's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Davied climbed just as high around 1960, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Davied's path sketches the road Micha is walking now.
Micha 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
Micha beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Micha in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A settled Hebrew meaning that is a complete question rather than a description.
- The same spelling in German, Dutch and Hebrew.
- Two syllables with nothing genuinely ambiguous in the spelling.
- Micah is the commoner English spelling and this one will be corrected toward it.
- Most bearers are boys but a real minority are girls, so a form will guess and sometimes be wrong.
- The ch is a throat sound in German and Hebrew and a k in English, so two sayings are in use.
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Micha
Masculine · #4396 in the U.S.
Frequently asked
- How many Michas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,100 people named Micha are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Micha in 2025?
- Micha ranks #4396 among US boy names in 2025, with 23 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Micha?
- About 1 in every 74,264 US boys born in 2025 was named Micha — 23 in all.
- Will my child share the name Micha with classmates?
- Micha will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Micha
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