Mikah
Mikah is given to both girls and boys: 25 girls and 107 boys were given it in 2025 (#5,182 among girls’ names and #1,594 among boys’, #2,935 among all names counting both); 5,061 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Mikah every year since 2002.
An estimated 5,000 Americans named Mikah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikah?
#1,594 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikah fell from #1,432 in 2015 to #1,594 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born held at 62.6 per million.
223 babies in 2013, the peak
Mikah peaked in 2013, when 223 babies were given it (166 boys, #1,109 among boys’ names). The 132 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,182 | 107 | #1,594 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,445 | 106 | #1,618 |
| 2023 | 27 | #4,952 | 130 | #1,413 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,750 | 141 | #1,336 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,063 | 138 | #1,344 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,511 | 125 | #1,394 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,891 | 121 | #1,446 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,306 | 112 | #1,524 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,334 | 129 | #1,375 |
| 2016 | 40 | #3,833 | 132 | #1,353 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,988 | 120 | #1,432 |
| 2014 | 45 | #3,521 | 126 | #1,359 |
| 2013 | 57 | #2,962 | 166 | #1,109 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,964 | 140 | #1,262 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,934 | 144 | #1,215 |
| 2010 | 59 | #2,928 | 145 | #1,225 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,283 | 171 | #1,090 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,759 | 141 | #1,237 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,116 | 130 | #1,321 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,661 | 109 | #1,434 |
| 2005 | 70 | #2,493 | 108 | #1,386 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,302 | 86 | #1,544 |
| 2003 | 46 | #3,213 | 71 | #1,727 |
| 2002 | 55 | #2,762 | 74 | #1,630 |
| 2001 | 55 | #2,725 | 53 | #2,017 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,580 | 39 | #2,457 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,414 | 41 | #2,250 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,787 | 40 | #2,258 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,755 | 21 | #3,419 |
| 1996 | 25 | #4,270 | 28 | #2,720 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,836 | 21 | #3,265 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,961 | 18 | #3,699 |
| 1993 | 31 | #3,549 | 24 | #2,910 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,405 | 10 | #5,514 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,929 | 10 | #5,371 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,153 | 7 | #6,909 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,028 | 9 | #5,444 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,496 | 10 | #4,656 |
| 1987 | 21 | #4,076 | 9 | #4,815 |
| 1986 | 10 | #6,935 | 12 | #3,796 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,348 | 7 | #5,552 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,124 | 7 | #5,366 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,532 | under 5 | |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,687 | 6 | #6,137 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,167 | 5 | #6,933 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,182 | 7 | #5,310 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,294 | 6 | #5,812 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,808 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,938 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,296 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,900 | under 5 | |
| 1974 | under 5 | 5 | #5,732 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,495 |
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 Mikah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 5,061 Americans recorded as Mikah, 33% are girls and 67% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mikah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikah, and how old are they?
5,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,061 Americans ever recorded as Mikah. The median Mikah alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 3,634 people named Mikah (1,332 women and girls, 2,302 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,129 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 | 58 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 436 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,370 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,140 |
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 Mikah born?
The states with the most babies named Mikah are Florida, Texas and California, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 15 | #944 | 0.5× |
| Texas | 14 | #1,388 | 1.0× |
| California | 9 | #1,775 | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,371 | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,204 | 0.2× |
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 Mikah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mikah?
Mikah is a less common spelling of Micah: SSA has recorded 5,061 Mikah and 133,606 Micah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 351,717 babies since 1880, Mikah is the third most given (1.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 132 of their 4,648 babies (2.8%), again the third 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 Mikah
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 Mikah and names like it
- Compare Mikah and MicahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMikah peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikah since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Mikah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.