Mikah
- Gender
- Mostly boys
- Say it
- MY-ka
- Origin
- Hebrew
- UK rank, 2025
- #4,935 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #1,585 for boys
Mikah is a name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 1,585th for boys in the US (107 babies).
What does Mikah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Micah
“who is like God?”
A respelling of Micah, one of the twelve minor prophets of the Hebrew Bible.
Is Mikah a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Mikah has been given to girls and boys, mostly boys. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 25 girls and 107 boys in the US.
How popular is Mikah in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2015, with 9 boys. 4 girls were also named Mikah in 2025 (4,935th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Mikah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mikah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #3,003 |
| 2023 | 2 | #6,493 |
| 2022 | 6 | #3,219 |
| 2021 | 5 | #3,614 |
| 2020 | 7 | #2,819 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 4 | #4,169 |
| 2017 | 5 | #3,608 |
| 2016 | 4 | #4,214 |
| 2015 | 9 | #2,425 |
| 2014 | 7 | #2,843 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 3 | #4,999 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 3 | #4,691 |
| 2008 | 6 | #2,906 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 3 | #3,593 |
How popular is Mikah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,585among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 107about 1 in 16,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 4% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 107 boys in the US were named Mikah, making it the 1,585th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,390th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 171 boys. It first appears in the records in 1972. 25 girls were also named Mikah in 2025 (5,098th for girls).
Half of all the boys named Mikah in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 4,041 boys in the US were given Mikah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #92, up from #1,585 for this spelling alone.
In 1987, 70% of the babies named Mikah in the US were girls. By 2025 it was 19%, with more boys than girls since 2002.
Mikah in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 107 | #1,585 |
| 2024 | 106 | #1,608 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,408 |
| 2022 | 141 | #1,330 |
| 2021 | 138 | #1,339 |
| 2020 | 125 | #1,390 |
| 2019 | 121 | #1,441 |
| 2018 | 112 | #1,521 |
| 2017 | 129 | #1,373 |
| 2016 | 132 | #1,349 |
| 2015 | 120 | #1,427 |
| 2014 | 126 | #1,355 |
| 2013 | 166 | #1,107 |
| 2012 | 140 | #1,258 |
| 2011 | 144 | #1,212 |
| 2010 | 145 | #1,219 |
| 2009 | 171 | #1,085 |
| 2008 | 141 | #1,233 |
| 2007 | 130 | #1,317 |
| 2006 | 109 | #1,427 |
| 2005 | 108 | #1,380 |
| 2004 | 86 | #1,539 |
| 2003 | 71 | #1,714 |
| 2002 | 74 | #1,617 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,003 |
| 2000 | 39 | #2,421 |
| 1999 | 41 | #2,228 |
| 1998 | 40 | #2,232 |
| 1997 | 21 | #3,346 |
| 1996 | 28 | #2,674 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,186 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,590 |
| 1993 | 24 | #2,859 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,228 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,088 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,408 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,158 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,445 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,567 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,649 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,142 |
| 1984 | 7 | #4,969 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 6 | #5,617 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,260 |
| 1980 | 7 | #4,938 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,353 |
| 1978 | 0 | – |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,580 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,225 |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,983 |
Names like Mikah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa Yusuf Alijah Shiloh Zamir Yitzchok Jireh Hamza Abdullah Yahir Muhammad Ibrahim
Other spellings of Mikah
Names related to Mikah
More Hebrew names
Noah Isabella Elijah James Jack Mia Ava Jude Ezra Benjamin Isaac Jacob Ethan Daniel Samuel Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mikah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikah, updated 20 October 2026.