Micah Boy Name

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The name Micah is of Hebrew origin, and means who is like Yahweh? The table below indicates the number of times the name Micah has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Micah**
Use of the Name Micah for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
43,872	43,872	35,699	18,808	10,968	4,699	2,436

The table below indicates the number of times the name Micah has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Micah first appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1959, which is the first year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Micah**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1959	957	65
1960	896	72
1961	758	103
1962	731	110
1963	784	95
1964	776	95
1965	686	118
1966	717	108
1967	658	129
1968	660	130
1969	596	172
1970	540	225
1971	491	268
1972	408	371
1973	327	528
1974	272	696
1975	254	789
1976	227	897
1977	211	1,052
1978	215	1,005	960	145
1979	205	1,145
1980	228	1,046
1981	213	1,164	920	163
1982	216	1,122	968	153
1983	219	1,036	925	161
1984	207	1,113	868	176
1985	208	1,145	943	166
1986	216	1,100	894	183
1987	224	1,066	889	189
1988	225	1,108	855	209
1989	237	1,117	973	179
1990	238	1,176	907	212
1991	246	1,134	815	252
1992	241	1,196	769	270
1993	240	1,201	746	278
1994	246	1,167	723	288
1995	212	1,384	630	346
1996	210	1,476	628	358
1997	202	1,567	614	368
1998	199	1,679	582	415
1999	194	1,734	587	419
2000	186	1,966	641	391
2001	179	2,095	626	398
2002	174	2,208	639	397
2003	173	2,263	704	370
2004	163	2,436	759	338
Totals:		43,872		6,824

During the last 125 years, parents have used Micah as a boy's name about 86% of the time and less frequently (about 13% of the time) as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Micah appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 46 times during the last 125 years.

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Micah Boy Name

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Boy Name Micah