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Micah vs Michaiah

American parents have registered 133,606 Micahs since 1880, against 541 Michaiahs. Micah is still ahead, with 4,108 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Micah against Michaiah, 1880 to 2025 0 1.3k 2.5k 3.8k 5k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Micah Michaiah

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Micah has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1946 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2001, when Micah had 2,512 and Michaiah had 30.

Side by side

  Micah Michaiah
Total US births 133,606541
Most in one year 4,24632
Babies in 2025 4,108under 5
Estimated living today 131,000540
Median age today 1619
Peak year 20222007
Best rank 89th boys5,709th girls
Rank in 2025 90thunranked
First recorded 19461983
Girls / boys 14,035 / 119,571409 / 132

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Michaiahs alive today are over 19; half the Micahs are over 16. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Micah and Michaiah.