Given name & surname
Mikha
“who is like Yahweh”
Mikha is used as a given name and a surname.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mikha is a romanization of מיכה. מיכה goes back to a word meaning “who is like Yahweh.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2012. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mikha through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2013
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2013. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 418 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mikha’s family of names
In Hebrew usage, Mikha is a transliteration of מיכה.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 6
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mikha
- Mikha TambayongIndonesian actress and singerborn 1994
- Mikha Pola MaqdassiIraqi Chaldean Catholic bishopborn 1949
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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