Micha
Micha is given to both girls and boys: 7 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#12,739 among girls’ names and #4,488 among boys’, #8,013 among all names counting both); 2,366 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,280 Americans named Micha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 17 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Micha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Micha mean?
Wiktionary, German section
Micha is “a male given name from Hebrew”
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh), whence also English Micah; see there for more information.
/ˈmɪça/
Meaning: Wiktionary, German section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Micha?
#12,739 among girls’ names, 2025
Micha fell from #5,960 in 2015 to #12,739 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 4.4 per million.
62 babies in 2001, the peak
Micha peaked in 2001, when 62 babies were given it (36 girls, #3,676 among girls’ names). The 30 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 48% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,739 | 23 | #4,488 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,686 | 22 | #4,653 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,589 | 22 | #4,684 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,888 | 29 | #3,834 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,679 | 21 | #4,714 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,265 | 25 | #4,099 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,449 | 21 | #4,746 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,346 | 18 | #5,240 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,389 | 23 | #4,416 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,265 | 16 | #5,695 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,960 | 21 | #4,653 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,353 | 26 | #3,975 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,429 | 25 | #4,024 |
| 2012 | 23 | #5,836 | 23 | #4,340 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,319 | 39 | #2,979 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,066 | 29 | #3,686 |
| 2009 | 20 | #6,732 | 34 | #3,309 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,692 | 28 | #3,795 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,252 | 36 | #3,167 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,733 | 17 | #5,228 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,792 | 13 | #6,099 |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,492 | 28 | #3,421 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,326 | 24 | #3,688 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,605 | 21 | #3,990 |
| 2001 | 36 | #3,676 | 26 | #3,372 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,920 | 28 | #3,120 |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,354 | 27 | #3,069 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,511 | 16 | #4,330 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,342 | 18 | #3,828 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,598 | 10 | #5,823 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,636 | 13 | #4,703 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,497 | 13 | #4,704 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,641 | 17 | #3,759 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,171 | 12 | #4,757 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,893 | 15 | #3,947 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,996 | 20 | #3,125 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,076 | 14 | #3,943 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,853 | 14 | #3,636 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,138 | 19 | #2,789 |
| 1986 | 22 | #3,840 | 14 | #3,372 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,054 | 18 | #2,787 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,433 | 24 | #2,213 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,394 | 17 | #2,752 |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,973 | 25 | #2,146 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,959 | 19 | #2,546 |
| 1980 | 24 | #3,468 | 22 | #2,335 |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,739 | 14 | #3,111 |
| 1978 | 25 | #3,165 | 14 | #3,023 |
| 1977 | 33 | #2,597 | 27 | #1,886 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,508 | 17 | #2,570 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,473 | 18 | #2,416 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,809 | 17 | #2,423 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,192 | 8 | #3,943 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,449 | 15 | #2,504 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,246 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,525 | 9 | #3,438 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,627 | 6 | #4,251 |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,024 | 7 | #3,572 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,538 | 7 | #3,447 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,312 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,629 | 6 | #3,800 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 5 | #4,429 | |
| 1963 | 8 | #5,160 | under 5 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 9 | #2,983 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 6 | #3,921 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,903 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,734 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,580 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,045 | under 5 |
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 Micha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,366 Americans recorded as Micha, 51% are girls and 49% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Micha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Micha, and how old are they?
2,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,366 Americans ever recorded as Micha. The median Micha alive today is 29 years old; half are between 17 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 2,819 people named Micha (1,414 women and girls, 1,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,126 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Micha rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 40 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 411 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 672 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 736 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 423 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 2,847 babies since 1880, Micha is the most given (83% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 30 babies (100%), again the 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 Micha
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 Micha and names like it
- Compare Micha and MichiahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMicha peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Micha since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Micha: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Micha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Micha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.