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Mica

#6,045 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Who is like Yahweh, through מִיכָה

Mica has been given to 3,695 babies in the U.S. since 1952. In 2025 it ranked #6,045 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 104 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 73% girls, 27% boys all-time.

Babies named Mica, 2025

1 in 166,000

Mica over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Mica over time

In 2025, Mica went to 47% girls and 53% boys.

19522025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Mica: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like Yahweh, through מִיכָה

Hebrew

What Mica means

Mica belongs to the name family reached through Mica → מִיכָה. Its meaning is “who is like Yahweh”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mica is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Mica comes through Hebrew מִיכָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Micah and מִיכָה.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,713 girls were recorded with the name Mica between 1952 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1989; its best national rank was #1,347 in 1970.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,537 in 2020 to #6,045 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,466 in 2015 to #6,045 in 2025.

In the United States, 982 boys were recorded with the name Mica between 1959 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 1979; its best national rank was #1,927 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,228 in 2020 to #4,487 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,652 in 2015 to #4,487 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mica?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,045
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Micas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mica was born before 1989 — so the typical Mica is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
22.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,713
People you could plausibly meet
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1970s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (619).

Is Mica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+492
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,579
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.2%
Peak was 1989 (104)
Years since peak
36
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,347
1970

Spellings of Mica

Mica is not the most common spelling — Lisa is, with 23.0% against Mica's 0.06%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mica is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mica was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 172,197 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 50,000
  2. 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in —
  8. 8Kentucky1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mica is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 706,761 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2North Carolina1 in —
  3. 3Oregon1 in —
  4. 4Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mica around the world

Where Mica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1991–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • France
    2001–2024
    #7,601
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,435
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1971–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mica

People whose public names include Mica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mica in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mica. Linked forms have their own page here.

Marija

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,045
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 492
Best rank ever
#1,347
1970
Peak year
1989
104 that year
First recorded
1952
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,713
Count in 2025
20

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,487
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 259
Best rank ever
#1,927
1979
Peak year
1979
28 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
982
Count in 2025
23

Names similar to Mica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Mica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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