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Michea

Girls' name

Who is like Yahweh, through מִיכָה

Michea has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1985, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Michea, 2000

1 in 756,000

Michea over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michea: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like Yahweh, through מִיכָה

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michea means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Michea is used in Italian.

Michea comes through Biblical Hebrew מִיכָה.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include מִיכָה.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Michea is pronounced /miˈkɛ.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 30 girls were recorded with the name Michea between 1985 and 2000. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1985; its best national rank was #8,935 in 1985.

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.

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How common is Michea?

Michea had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2000
1 in 756,000
5 of 3,778,496 births
Among girls only
1 in 363,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2000
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
523,812 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michea 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 2000 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 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Micheas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michea was born before 1992 — so the typical Michea is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
30
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Michea 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1985 (7)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#8,935
1985

Spellings of Michea

Michea is not the most common spelling — Michele is, with 62.4% against Michea'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.

Michea 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
#8,935
1985
Peak year
1985
7 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2000
All-time count
30
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michea

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

MicayaMichiaMickelMichaeMichahMicholMicelleMickiaMickelaMichiyeMicahlaMicayahMichiyaMichieMicahyaMichayaMickellMicolMicealaKasheaMicelKesheaMichalahMicale

Sibling names for Michea

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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