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Michaiah

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Form of Micaiah

Michaiah has been given to 541 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 2007, with 24 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% girls, 24% boys all-time.

Babies named Michaiah, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2024, Michaiah went to 42% girls and 58% boys.

19832024

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.

Michaiah: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Micaiah

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michaiah means

Michaiah is a form of Micaiah.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Michaiah is used in Biblical.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Michaiah → 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, 409 girls were recorded with the name Michaiah between 1983 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,116 in 2001.

In the United States, 132 boys were recorded with the name Michaiah between 1998 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2019; its best national rank was #7,462 in 2019.

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 Michaiah?

Michaiah 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michaiah 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 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michaiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michaiahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michaiah was born before 2005 — so the typical Michaiah is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
75.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
409
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (180).

Is Michaiah 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 2007 (24)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,116
2001

Spellings of Michaiah

Michaiah is not the most common spelling — Micaiah is, with 44.3% against Michaiah's 11.7%.

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.

Michaiah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,116
2001
Peak year
2007
24 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
409
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,462
2019
Peak year
2019
11 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
132
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michaiah

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

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Sibling names for Michaiah

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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