Name Awesome

Micajah

Boys' name

Variant of Micaiah

Micajah has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1991. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1999, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Micajah, 2024

1 in 478,000

Micajah over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Micajah: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Micaiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Micajah means

Micajah is a variant of Micaiah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Micajah is used in Biblical.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Micajah → Micaiah. The family’s meaning is “who is like Yahweh?”, recorded in the naming reference for Micaiah.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Micaiah.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 boys were recorded with the name Micajah between 1991 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1999; its best national rank was #6,341 in 1999.

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.

How common is Micajah?

Micajah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Micajah sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micajah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Micajahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Micajah was born before 2002 — so the typical Micajah is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (33).

Is Micajah 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1999 (10)
Years since peak
26
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,341
1999

Spellings of Micajah

Micajah is not the most common spelling — Micah is, with 97.4% against Micajah's 0.08%.

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.

Micajah around the world

Where Micajah 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.

  • South Australia
    2013–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Micajah by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,341
1999
Peak year
1999
10 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Micajah

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

MichoelMicaiasMicharlAhlijahMichallMickellMichiahMalijahMicheilDelijahKelijahMiciahMichioMiccoMickaleMictlanMickalMichaelaMichaiahMichaealKalijahAalijahElizjahMelijah

Sibling names for Micajah

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

Explore around Micajah

Top names of 1999, Micajah's peak yearThe 1990s in fullOther names that peaked in 1999Boys' names starting with M