Micah pronounced me-kah

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Myself and my husband have really been struggling with a boys name!

I'm due in about 5 weeks and we don't know what we're having (we already have a boy )

I am really loving the name Micah and when I read it I pronounce it 'me kah'

It has been the only name I haven't changed my mind about liking, the only thing making me question it is the way I want to spell & pronounce it

I know it can be pronounced mike-ah but I'm not keen on the pronunciation

I know I can technically pronounce it how I want , but has anyone heard of Micah pronounced Me -Kah

I've seen other spelling but I really like this spelling of it

Thank you

Actually, now I've thought about it, it's more my-kuh. Although I guess it's pretty much the same thing!

There is quite a bit of variation on this thread to be fair to the OP.

I have only ever known/said it as My-cuh.

I think of Mee-cuh as a girls name but that's because the only one I've ever known (Mika) was female.

Micah - is always Mike-Ah.
as is Mica. Which is the name of a group of minerals. Think of Formica.

of you want Mee-kah, then go for a different spelling. Otherwise it’s like saying George, but spelling it Peter.

“Me-Kah” Mikha, short for Mikhail. Arabic pronunciation has a “kha” rather than “kah” sound, it’s a Russian name too and the stress on “me” is more “muh” in Russian I think.

Also I have never heard the My-kah pronunciation. That’s not to say it isn’t a name, just wanted to add my experience to others. I’m surprised others haven’t heard it as Mee-kah though as the mid-noughties pop star Mika, Lebanese born, short for Michael, pronounced it that way.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mika_(singer)

Me ka is a perfectly valid pronunciation of Micah. Just not in English.

Micah is a Hebrew prophet name, pronounced Me cha (with the guttural ch as in loch) or Me ka.

@BakeOffRewatch but the OP isn’t asking about the pronunciation of Mika or Mikha. She’s asking about Micah which is a different name from a different culture and language.

Hardly

Dont be so bloody patronising. Where did she say shes not prepared to pronounce it?

She likes the spelling Micah but wants to pronounce it Meekah. its not hard to understand.

She likes the spelling Micah but wants to pronounce it Meekah. its not hard to understand

It is hard to understand because Meekah is spelled Mika, and Mykah is spelled Micah. So we don't understand why you'd do that. No one will know how to say it until corrected and even then some will persist in saying it wrong (I say this as I have a name with a few variations and I still get called the variations even by people who have known me for years!).

She likes the spelling Micah but wants to pronounce it Meekah. its not hard to understand.

Of course it’s hard to understand - because it’s illiterate and ignorant. Just the same as saying your child is spelled Nigel but pronounced Norris.

Of course it is.
because that’s not how Micah is pronounced
so it doesn’t make any sense

Prepare for a life time of people mispronouncing your kid's name...

As a total aside to the pronunciation, I don't like it as a name.

You#re being deliberately obtuse.

I know two Alicias. one is Aleesha, one is Aleesia. (sounded out like). This is not the same as Hannah and Amy, is it?

Also, I would argue it's far more ignorant to tell another person what they can call their child.

Ironic.

It's not like saying your child is spelled Nigel but pronounced Norris.
It's like saying your child is called Nigel but pronounced Niggle, or that Darcie is pronounced Darchy

You could move to a Welsh-speaking part of Wales and the Mee-ka pronunciation for Micah would work, although you'ld probably get people saying Mike-ah or Mey-k

FWIW, names like Caleb, Jacob annd Daniel get pronounced differently in Welsh (Cal-ebb not Kay-leb, Jack-ob not Jay-Kub, and Dan-yell not Dan-yull)

Of course I understand. She says she likes the name Micah but she actually doesn’t because she doesn’t like the way it sounds. She does like the ( different) name Mika.
she could of course throw together any combination of letters and assign whatever sound to it she likes but her child will undoubtedly spend their life explaining the spelling and/or pronunciation of their name.

Also, I would argue it's far more ignorant to tell another person what they can call their child.

If you actually think that, I’m not sure why you’re on this forum.

I'd say it My-kah, like the prophet. I think both Micah and Mika are very nice names. But if you want Mee-kah, I would use the established spelling. I think most people seeing the spelling 'Mika' would automatically read it as you want it pronounced and it will save your child having to correct people all the time.

I pronounced mekah as im sure there was a footballer with that pronunciation

I’m a girl and my dad named me Myka pronounced like Micah. I like having a unique name but did get the odd Meeka

I’ve always pronounced this as “mee-kah”

Hello. its what you put on the end that changes the pronunciation of the middle vowel, in English anyway. The confusion happens when you are also hearing derivatives in other languages which may make pronunciation different.

But, for the sake of the argument, I’ll assume we are talking about it in the English sense.

The spelling MIKA and the spelling MIKE, for example, change the pronunciation of the I due to the E. E makes the I sound change from ‘ee’ to ‘eye’

AH on the end (C or K irrelevant) works similarly. Therefore Mikah or Micah is pronounced in the English language as MY-CAH. It simply can’t be ME-CAH the language rules don’t work that way.

And no, I’m not a pendant, but I sent the thread to my DM who is a retired English Language lecturer and lifelong studier of the English language and that’s how she explained it to me. And then went on and on explaining about how the CK rather than C or K makes another different pronunciation too….

If however you are basing the naming on another language, the rules of course are different.