Mykah
Feminine · “who is like the Lord?”
Mykah is given to both — 1,381 girls and 1,110 boys since 1880. See Mykah as a boy nameSee other names given to both
Mykah is a respelling of Micah, and the name is a rhetorical question that expects the answer nobody.
How old is the name Mykah?
Mykah first appears in US birth records in 1985 — 40 years ago. The typical Mykah alive today was born around 2011, making them about 14 years old. About 1,400 people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mykah most popular?
Mykah peaked in 2011, reaching #2369 nationally. Today it ranks #4067, 1,698 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mikhayahu to Mykah
The story of Mykah
Micah's book contains the line about what the Lord requires — to do justice, love mercy and walk humbly — which is among the most quoted sentences in the Hebrew Bible, and the prophet is unusual among the twelve for the directness of his social criticism. The name entered American records for both sexes and rose sharply from the 1970s; Mykah is one of the girls' respellings.
Meaning
who is like the Lord?
From Hebrew Mikhayahu, contracting mi, who, kha, like, and a form of the divine name; Michael asks the same question with the other word for God. The question is not an inquiry — it is an assertion in interrogative form.
How the name formed
- Mikhayahu
- Micah
- Mykah
Related forms: Micah · Mikha · Michaela
Pronouncing Mykah
MY-kah
Two syllables, first stressed. Mykah and Micah are said identically.
Nicknames for Mykah
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
- 1985
- Most girls named
- 201178 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2369reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −20.5%35 in 2025, from 44
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.
Mykah in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Micah in English — spelling variant
- Mikha in Hebrew — same name
- Michaela in English — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Michigan.
Mykahs among us
people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 45,922 born in 2025 was named Mykah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mykah
- #4067
- Mykah on the 2025 chart
- #486
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mykah went to 35 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 — 3,581 places above the chart.
About 1 girl in 2,896 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 45,922 for Mykah 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 Bethani test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mykah's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Bethani climbed just as high around 1988, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Bethani's path sketches the road Mykah is walking now.
Mykah 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 Mykah is headed
Mykah 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.
Mykah beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mykah 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.
- Mika is a related short form with lives in several languages.
- Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
- Micah is the standard spelling and is more often read as a boys' name.
- Mykah, Mikah and Micah are all in use and only Micah is common.
- The y makes a biblical name look like a modern coinage.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mykahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,400 people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mykah?
- Mykah is one of 7 recorded spellings. Micah is the more common one — 291 births in 2025 against 35 for Mykah.
- How popular is the name Mykah in 2025?
- Mykah ranks #4067 among US girl names in 2025, with 35 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mykah?
- About 1 in every 45,922 US girls born in 2025 was named Mykah — 35 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mykah with classmates?
- Mykah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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