Michah
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Michah has been given to 397 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2001, with 15 recorded.
Babies named Michah, 2024
1 in 557,000
Michah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Michah?
Michah 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 557,000
- 6 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 287,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 386,177 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Michah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Michahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Michah was born before 2000 — so the typical Michah is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 25.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 51.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 380
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 25.8% of all recorded uses (98).
Is Michah 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2001 (15)
- Years since peak
- 24
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.8% average annual change
Spellings of Michah
Michah is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 93.5% against Michah's <0.01%.
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.
Michah around the world
Where Michah 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.
- Canada2018–2018#2,905in 2018
- South Australia2009–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Michah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Michah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Michah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.