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Micah/Maike

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loie · 05/06/2019 19:03

How would you spell this name (pronounced Mike-a)?
My friend told me Micah will be pronounced (mee-ka) and Maike will be pronounced (Make).

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evilharpy · 06/06/2019 21:31

Micah reminds me of Micah Wallace in The Commitments. In the film they pronounced it Mick-ah. Like Mickey Mouse. He was a really cool character but I think anyone who has seen the film would probably think Micah = Mick-ah.

TatianaLarina · 06/06/2019 19:45

Micah pronunciation would depend what country you’re in. Here it would be Mike a, in France it would be Meek a.

Maike = Meye cuh (with possibly a hint of e after the eye).

CassianAndor · 06/06/2019 10:53

Micah

Pinkvoid · 06/06/2019 10:51

Micah. It’s my Step-Dad’s name.
Word of warning he has dealt with a life time of being called Mike and Michael.

Eustasiavye · 05/06/2019 23:55

I've never heard of either so would say My-cah and M-ay-kee.

Shadow1234 · 05/06/2019 23:35

My daughter has a friend (girl) called Micah, pronounced Mi-ka

notmygumdropbuttons · 05/06/2019 22:27

I know a Micah and it is pronounced Mike-ah! But people do sometimes get confused

Longdistance · 05/06/2019 21:51

Myka?

Hosiesmum · 05/06/2019 21:41

That said, my youngest is Micah, and at all medical appointments (where his name is called out before I've introduced him as "Mike-uh"), he has only once had the correct pronunciation. He mostly gets "Meeka", "Meesha", "Mitch-uh"... (?!)

So it's not as well known as I had assumed when naming the poor lad!

Muddlingalongalone · 05/06/2019 21:40

I would say Micah is mee-ka and Maike is Mike-a

Hosiesmum · 05/06/2019 21:38

I'd say Micah is Mike-uh. Not heard of Maike but I'd also have guessed the same pronunciation as Micah.

LucyFox · 05/06/2019 21:34

Micah is a male name: Mike-uh
Meike is a female name & pronounced either Meek-a, May-kah, or my-kuh depending where you are from!

LynetteScavo · 05/06/2019 21:30

Micah is Mike-ah

I'd have no idea how to pronounce Maike

icannotremember · 05/06/2019 21:28

Micah I'd pronounce mike-uh.
Maike I've never seen before so I'd Google how to say it before I tried!

DramaAlpaca · 05/06/2019 21:26

Micah is a biblical Male name pronounced 'Mike-uh'.

Maike looks more like a female name & I'd pronounce it the same.

tiramisu1 · 05/06/2019 21:24

Well, maybe in English Smile

TurquoiseAndPurple · 05/06/2019 21:20

@tiramisu1 they're pronounced the same. Not by everyone but Maike is pronounced like mike-ah/uh by lots of people.

poopypants · 05/06/2019 20:55

Majka

tiramisu1 · 05/06/2019 20:52

No it doesn't Hmm

JumpingFrogs · 05/06/2019 20:51

The 'e' at the end of Maike means that in German it would be pronounced as if it had an 'a' at the end

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tiramisu1 · 05/06/2019 20:44

I pronounce both Micah and Maike the same

But Micah ends with -a whereas Maike ends with -e. Two very different sounds!

tiramisu1 · 05/06/2019 20:41

Maike = Mai-keh

Micah = Mi-cah (mee-cah)

Tfoot75 · 05/06/2019 19:12

Mee-cah (but boys name?) and Mike-ah - I knew a German one would be late 30s now and that was how it was pronounced.

TurquoiseAndPurple · 05/06/2019 19:11

I also have a friend names Mika pronounced mee-ka.

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