Micaiah
Micaiah is given to both girls and boys: 34 girls and 133 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,239 among girls’ names and #1,386 among boys’, #2,506 among all names counting both); 4,637 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Micaiah every year since 2001.
An estimated 4,570 Americans named Micaiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Micaiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Micaiah?
#1,386 among boys’ names, 2025
Micaiah rose from #1,636 in 2015 to #1,386 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 51.1 to 77.9 per million.
192 babies in 2016, the peak
Micaiah peaked in 2016, when 192 babies were given it (127 boys, #1,387 among boys’ names). The 167 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 87% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,239 | 133 | #1,386 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,395 | 112 | #1,559 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,526 | 130 | #1,412 |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,578 | 103 | #1,672 |
| 2021 | 43 | #3,597 | 97 | #1,697 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,214 | 124 | #1,406 |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,120 | 93 | #1,710 |
| 2018 | 47 | #3,379 | 92 | #1,714 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,896 | 99 | #1,617 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,686 | 127 | #1,387 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #3,332 | 98 | #1,636 |
| 2014 | 42 | #3,697 | 139 | #1,281 |
| 2013 | 40 | #3,825 | 124 | #1,366 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,408 | 101 | #1,570 |
| 2011 | 53 | #3,161 | 105 | #1,519 |
| 2010 | 48 | #3,396 | 91 | #1,696 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,782 | 100 | #1,600 |
| 2008 | 62 | #2,879 | 75 | #1,927 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,114 | 102 | #1,547 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,805 | 80 | #1,753 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,773 | 65 | #1,954 |
| 2004 | 65 | #2,574 | 76 | #1,692 |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,401 | 90 | #1,460 |
| 2002 | 57 | #2,691 | 80 | #1,551 |
| 2001 | 73 | #2,222 | 105 | #1,270 |
| 2000 | 71 | #2,226 | 51 | #2,002 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,884 | 60 | #1,727 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,332 | 48 | #2,004 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,506 | 44 | #2,047 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,789 | 33 | #2,407 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,157 | 35 | #2,275 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,889 | 19 | #3,546 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,326 | 23 | #2,990 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,348 | 20 | #3,294 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,057 | 27 | #2,579 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,968 | 24 | #2,745 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,760 | 14 | #3,942 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,132 | 15 | #3,460 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,750 | 15 | #3,285 |
| 1986 | under 5 | 5 | #7,441 | |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,176 | 5 | #7,221 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,072 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,359 | 7 | #5,278 |
| 1982 | under 5 | 13 | #3,423 | |
| 1981 | under 5 | 7 | #5,289 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 9 | #4,379 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 16 | #2,858 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 17 | #2,626 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 15 | #2,864 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,290 | 5 | #6,169 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 6 | #5,229 | |
| 1973 | under 5 | 5 | #5,609 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Micaiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,637 Americans recorded as Micaiah, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Micaiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Micaiah, and how old are they?
4,570 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,637 Americans ever recorded as Micaiah. The median Micaiah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 3,200 people named Micaiah (1,168 women and girls, 2,032 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,733 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 72 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 378 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Micaiah born?
The states with the most babies named Micaiah are Texas, Florida and California, with 45% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 19 | #1,456 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,039 | 0.7× |
| California | 9 | #1,771 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 9 | #771 | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #980 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 8 | #882 | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,087 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,232 | 0.7× |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,003 | 0.3× |
| Colorado | 6 | #820 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Micaiah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 138,958 babies since 1880, Micaiah is the second most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 167 of their 4,285 babies (3.9%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Micaiah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Micaiah and names like it
- Compare Micaiah and MicahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMicaiah peaked in 2016.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Micaiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2016The year the most babies were named Micaiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Micaiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.