Mikah
Feminine · “who is like Yahweh?”
Mikah is given to both — 1,682 girls and 3,379 boys since 1880. See Mikah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Micah asks a question. The Hebrew name is a shortened form of a sentence meaning who is like Yahweh, and the prophet who carries it wrote six of the sharpest chapters in the Bible about landowners taking small farms. The spelling with a k and an h goes mostly to girls.
How old is the name Mikah?
Mikah first appears in US birth records in 1975 — 50 years ago. The typical Mikah alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 1,700 people named Mikah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mikah most popular?
Mikah peaked in 2004, reaching #2286 nationally. Today it ranks #5099, 2,813 places below that high. See the whole 2004 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mikhah to Mikah
The story of Mikah
The prophet Micah wrote in the eighth century before the common era and his book is short, angry and specific: he names villages, he names the practice of seizing fields, and he ends with the line about doing justice and loving mercy that is quoted more than anything else in the twelve minor prophets. The name entered English use after the Reformation and returned strongly in the two-thousands. The Mikah spelling is recent and marks it as a girls' name.
Meaning
who is like Yahweh?
Hebrew Mikhah, a short form of Mikhayahu, which asks who is like Yah. Michael asks the same question of God with the general word El; the two names are built the same way.
How the name formed
- Mikhah
- Micah
- Mikah
Related forms: מיכה · Micah · Miqueas
Pronouncing Mikah
MY-kuh
Two syllables, stress in front, the first said like the word my. The h at the end is silent.
Nicknames for Mikah
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
- 1975
- Most girls named
- 200476 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2286reached in 2004
- Change vs 2024
- −21.9%25 in 2025, from 32
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.
Mikah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- מיכה in Hebrew — transliteration
- Micah in English — spelling variant
- Miqueas in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Ohio.
Mikahs among us
people named Mikah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 64,291 born in 2025 was named Mikah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mikah
- #5099
- Mikah on the 2025 chart
- #486
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mikah went to 25 girls in 2025, but Micah, Mika and Myka and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 555, which makes it the 486th most-given girls’ name of the year — 4,613 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,896 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 64,291 for Mikah 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 Soundra test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mikah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Soundra climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Soundra's path sketches the road Mikah is walking now.
Mikah 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 Mikah is headed
Mikah 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.
Mikah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mikah in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is a real question rather than a description, which is unusual and memorable.
- The prophet's book contains one of the best-known lines in the Bible.
- Two syllables and five letters make it fast to write and easy to say.
- Micah is the standard spelling and goes mainly to boys, so the child will be misfiled at times.
- Micah, Mikah and Mica are all in use and said identically.
- Michael asks the same question and is far commoner, so the connection gets missed.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mikahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,700 people named Mikah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mikah?
- Mikah is one of 7 recorded spellings. Micah is the more common one — 291 births in 2025 against 25 for Mikah.
- How popular is the name Mikah in 2025?
- Mikah ranks #5099 among US girl names in 2025, with 25 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mikah?
- About 1 in every 64,291 US girls born in 2025 was named Mikah — 25 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mikah with classmates?
- Mikah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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US figures from the Social Security Administration. 1880–2025. Data & methodology
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