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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Micah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Micah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Micah” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Micah” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Micah” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Micah” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Micah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Micah” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 5 0.000001388 5 -100%
1949 17 0.000004878 17 -100%
1950 16 0.000004567 16 -100%
1951 13 0.000003529 13 -100%
1952 14 0.000003686 14 -100%
1953 12 0.000003114 12 -100%
1954 21 0.000005275 6 15 -43%
1955 35 0.000008717 9 26 -49%
1956 29 0.000007034 5 24 -66%
1957 22 0.000005235 22 -100%
1958 41 0.000009918 10 31 -51%
1959 75 0.000018038 10 65 -73%
1960 80 0.000019259 7 73 -82%
1961 112 0.000027038 9 103 -84%
1962 119 0.000029489 9 110 -85%
1963 107 0.000027032 12 95 -78%
1964 108 0.000027781 12 96 -78%
1965 134 0.000036961 17 117 -75%
1966 125 0.000035964 17 108 -73%
1967 143 0.000042122 14 129 -80%
1968 145 0.00004292 15 130 -79%
1969 195 0.00005611 21 174 -78%
1970 250 0.000069319 25 225 -80%
1971 299 0.000087112 30 269 -80%
1972 413 0.000131403 40 373 -81%
1973 581 0.000192583 54 527 -81%
1974 775 0.000254934 81 694 -79%
1975 870 0.000288137 80 790 -82%
1976 998 0.000328906 98 900 -80%
1977 1155 0.000363608 104 1051 -82%
1978 1152 0.000362964 146 1006 -75%
1979 1278 0.00038413 134 1144 -79%
1980 1181 0.000342865 133 1048 -77%
1981 1333 0.00038533 165 1168 -75%
1982 1276 0.000363744 153 1123 -76%
1983 1201 0.000346775 162 1039 -73%
1984 1288 0.000369186 175 1113 -73%
1985 1313 0.000367879 166 1147 -75%
1986 1285 0.000361252 184 1101 -71%
1987 1253 0.000347514 189 1064 -70%
1988 1324 0.000358318 210 1114 -68%
1989 1297 0.00033737 179 1118 -72%
1990 1392 0.000352184 212 1180 -70%
1991 1388 0.00035633 252 1136 -64%
1992 1465 0.000381384 270 1195 -63%
1993 1481 0.000392809 278 1203 -62%
1994 1458 0.000392183 289 1169 -60%
1995 1739 0.000474857 348 1391 -60%
1996 1837 0.000503675 359 1478 -61%
1997 1939 0.000534786 369 1570 -62%
1998 2107 0.000572833 415 1692 -61%
1999 2160 0.000584753 421 1739 -61%
2000 2368 0.000626471 393 1975 -67%
2001 2512 0.00067105 399 2113 -68%
2002 2621 0.000701123 397 2224 -70%
2003 2657 0.000698784 371 2286 -72%
2004 2833 0.000741444 344 2489 -76%
2005 3009 0.000782606 295 2714 -80%
2006 3242 0.000819476 401 2841 -75%
2007 3686 0.000922034 379 3307 -79%
2008 3840 0.000976934 313 3527 -84%
2009 3888 0.001017754 347 3541 -82%
2010 3889 0.001052293 319 3570 -84%
2011 4059 0.001109686 288 3771 -86%
2012 4071 0.001113096 307 3764 -85%
2013 3994 0.001095547 294 3700 -85%
2014 3935 0.001061684 269 3666 -86%
2015 4100 0.001107835 334 3766 -84%
2016 3777 0.001029521 281 3496 -85%
2017 3978 0.001112356 268 3710 -87%
2018 4049 0.001151626 272 3777 -87%
2019 3787 0.001091061 281 3506 -85%
2020 3646 0.001091428 236 3410 -87%
2021 3891 0.001148482 268 3623 -86%
2022 4181 0.001235836 217 3964 -90%
2023 4140 0.001250303 251 3889 -88%
2024 4229 0.001270542 320 3909 -85%

Explore other names

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  9. Micahia
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