Micah — #86 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Micah

The Social Security Administration has registered 115,705 babies named Micah between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Micah currently holds the #86 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 3,964 babies received it in a single year. Micah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 13,738 additional births since 1954.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Micah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 36,726 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Micah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 11,695 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Micah in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Micah in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 115,705 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.