Michiah — unisex name

What the Data Says About Michiah

The Social Security Administration has registered 88 babies named Michiah between 2001 and 2012, spanning 12 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michiah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2012. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Michiah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 66 additional births since 1997.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michiah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 67 births during that ten-year window. Across the 2 decades of recorded activity, Michiah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Georgia, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Michiah in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michiah 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 88 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.