girls:
245 births since 1991
#5471 (4th percentile)
boys:
277 births since 1992
#4309 (6th percentile)
overall:
522 births since 1991
#7217 (7th percentile)
The name Miciah is the #7,217 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 522 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 6.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 6.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,309 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 277 births since 1992. For girls, it ranks #5,471 (4.3% percentile) for all time with 245 births since 1991.
Miciah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for girls and 1992 for boys). Birth data for Miciah is available in 31 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (28 years for boys and 25 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Miciah is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Miciah were boys. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for girls (52.7% girls from 1991 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (69.9% boys from 2010 to 2023).
For boys, Miciah reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #812) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Despite a low point around 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Miciah ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 31.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Miciah reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #951) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miciah".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Miciah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 38.7% confident that Miciah is pronounced as mih-KAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mai-KAI-uh, at 12.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH0 K AY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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