Mikah
#5,099 for girls in 2025, 25 births · #1,585 for boys in 2025, 107 births
Given to boys 66.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2009 · 171 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,379since 1972
Mikah over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,099 | 25 | #1,585 | 107 |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | #1,608 | 106 |
| 2023 | #4,873 | 27 | #1,408 | 130 |
| 2022 | #4,671 | 29 | #1,330 | 141 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #1,339 | 138 |
| 2020 | #4,453 | 30 | #1,390 | 125 |
| 2019 | #3,851 | 38 | #1,441 | 121 |
| 2018 | #4,237 | 33 | #1,521 | 112 |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 | #1,373 | 129 |
| 2016 | #3,777 | 40 | #1,349 | 132 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 | #1,427 | 120 |
| 2014 | #3,486 | 45 | #1,355 | 126 |
| 2013 | #2,936 | 57 | #1,107 | 166 |
| 2012 | #2,935 | 58 | #1,258 | 140 |
| 2011 | #2,909 | 59 | #1,212 | 144 |
| 2010 | #2,906 | 59 | #1,219 | 145 |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | #1,085 | 171 |
| 2008 | #3,710 | 43 | #1,233 | 141 |
| 2007 | #3,096 | 56 | #1,317 | 130 |
| 2006 | #2,631 | 68 | #1,427 | 109 |
| 2005 | #2,482 | 70 | #1,381 | 108 |
| 2004 | #2,286 | 76 | #1,542 | 86 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 | #1,717 | 71 |
| 2002 | #2,745 | 55 | #1,620 | 74 |
| 2001 | #2,700 | 55 | #2,007 | 53 |
| 2000 | #2,569 | 58 | #2,425 | 39 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | #2,231 | 41 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | #2,235 | 40 |
| 1997 | #2,733 | 45 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | #4,184 | 25 | #2,679 | 28 |
| 1995 | #3,780 | 28 | #3,191 | 21 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #3,596 | 18 |
| 1993 | #3,506 | 31 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #5,267 | 18 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 | #5,096 | 10 |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #5,836 | 14 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #5,321 | 15 | #4,450 | 10 |
| 1987 | #3,983 | 21 | #4,573 | 9 |
| 1986 | #6,612 | 10 | #3,653 | 12 |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #4,966 | 14 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #6,212 | 10 | — | |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #5,885 | 11 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
| 1977 | — | #4,582 | 7 | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 | — | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mikah! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1976, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mikah is popular in 2005
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#450 · 1 in 2,777
- South Carolina#626 · 1 in 4,240
- Colorado#701 · 1 in 5,996
- Ohio#927 · 1 in 10,921
- Texas#1,317 · 1 in 18,111
Best ever in a state: #246 in Hawaii, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #450 | 7 | 1 in 2,777 |
| South Carolina | #626 | 5 | 1 in 4,240 |
| Colorado | #701 | 5 | 1 in 5,996 |
| Ohio | #927 | 6 | 1 in 10,921 |
| Texas | #1,317 | 10 | 1 in 18,111 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mikah
- 23 spots since 2024 (#1,608 → #1,585)
- 195 spots since 2020 (#1,390 → #1,585)
- 158 spots since 2015 (#1,427 → #1,585)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 2009 at #1,085 (171 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,395 boys born in 2013 were named Mikah (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,963 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,085 in 2009, was only 1 in 11,600 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.5% of all boys named Mikah (1,335) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2001, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #4,582 (1977) | #5,038 |
| 1980s | 72 | #3,653 (1986) | #4,976 |
| 1990s | 220 | #2,231 (1999) | #3,690 |
| 2000s | 982 | #1,085 (2009) | #1,575 |
| 2010s | 1,335 | #1,107 (2013) | #1,326 |
| 2020s | 747 | #1,330 (2022) | #1,443 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mikah in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 26,398 of them was named Mikah, which outranked 87.1% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,457Nidhi71
- #2,457Tanner71
- #2,457Zakiyah71
- #2,482Mikah70
- #2,482Annalyse70
- #2,482Baleigh70
- #2,482Damia70
- #2,503Ameera69
- #2,503Aubry69
- #2,503Clarice69
Tied with 20 names at #2,482; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 18,494 of them was named Mikah, which outranked 89.7% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,372Lucius109
- #1,372Torin109
- #1,372Yitzchok109
- #1,381Mikah108
- #1,381Avi108
- #1,381Cecil108
- #1,381Daunte108
- #1,390Abhinav107
- #1,390Adyn107
- #1,390Isreal107
Tied with 8 names at #1,381; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.