Micah/Maike

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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).

Both are Mike-uh.

I did a thread about Maike the other day. I pronounce both Micah and Maike the same like mike-ah. It's the name I want to use for my next DD if I ever have one 😁 apprently Maike is a popular name in Germany for middle aged women

I knew a boy and he was 'micah' x

I pronounce ut Mike-ah. (but I thought it's a boy's name...?)
Very cool name either way.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/baby_names/3593508-Maike

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

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.

Maike = Mai-keh

Micah = Mi-cah (mee-cah)

I pronounce both Micah and Maike the same

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

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

No it doesn't

Majka

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

Well, maybe in English

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

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

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

Micah is Mike-ah

I'd have no idea how to pronounce Maike

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!

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

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

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!

Myka?

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

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