Mykah
Masculine · “who is like God?”
Mykah is given to both — 1,110 boys and 1,381 girls since 1880. See Mykah as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Mykah is a modern spelling of Micah, the prophet whose name is a question rather than a statement: who is like God? It is one of the shorter complete sentences in the Hebrew Bible.
How old is the name Mykah?
Mykah first appears in US birth records in 1996 — 29 years ago. The typical Mykah is a kid of about 11 — this name's wave is very recent. About 1,100 people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mykah most popular?
Mykah peaked in 2011, reaching #2317 nationally. Today it ranks #3240, 923 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Michayahu to Mykah
The story of Mykah
Micah of Moresheth is one of the twelve minor prophets, and his book contains lines that have stayed in the language — the one about beating swords into ploughshares among them. English-speaking Protestants took the name up after the Reformation and it has been in use since. The Mykah and Myka spellings are recent American respellings; they keep every sound of Micah and change the look, and they are used for boys and girls alike.
Meaning
who is like God?
A shortened form of Michayahu, asking rhetorically who resembles the Lord; the same question is asked in full by the name Michael.
How the name formed
- Michayahu
- Micah
- Mykah
Related forms: Micah · Mikha · Micha
Pronouncing Mykah
MY-kah
Two syllables, first stressed. Identical in sound to Micah.
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
- 1996
- Most boys named
- 201155 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2317reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −21.7%36 in 2025, from 46
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
- Micha in German — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Mykahs among us
people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 47,447 born in 2025 was named Mykah
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mykah
- #3240
- Mykah on the 2025 chart
- #84
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mykah went to 36 boys in 2025, but Micah, Mikah and Mika and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 7 spellings went to 4,065, which makes it the 84th most-given boys’ name of the year — 3,156 places above the chart.
and 1 rarer spelling.
About 1 boy in 420 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 47,447 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 Baudelio 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: Baudelio climbed just as high around 1929, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Baudelio'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 boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented biblical name with a settled meaning and a very long record.
- Two syllables and no sound that troubles any English speaker.
- Myke and Ky are both ready short forms.
- Micah is the standard spelling and will be written for him on nearly every form.
- Mika, Myka and Mykah are used for girls, so the paperwork will sometimes guess wrong.
- The y makes the name look invented when the name behind it is nearly three thousand years old.
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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 1,100 people named Mykah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mykah?
- Mykah is one of 6 recorded spellings. Micah is the more common one — 3,817 births in 2025 against 36 for Mykah.
- How popular is the name Mykah in 2025?
- Mykah ranks #3240 among US boy names in 2025, with 36 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mykah?
- About 1 in every 47,447 US boys born in 2025 was named Mykah — 36 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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