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Like MEE-KUH

MI-KAY-SHUH (like the ending of Elijah).

Interesting... I’ve been pronouncing it Muh-kai-ya. My dad is pronouncing it My-cage-juh.

The correct pronunciation is Ma-Kye-ah. ( I did some research!) God bless you!

http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/micajah

When I first saw it I thought Mick-uh-juh

I think your pronunciation is closest. I found a site that gives this pronunciation:

mi-KAY-a

Probably muh-kai-ya.

thanks!

It is a very common name in the Merryman family genealogy (you can google Micajah Merryman) and still used in parts of the south. All of the genealogy books list the pronunciation as "cage" and in some of the genealogies the the common usage name was written that way. From the explanation in the books the M was either silent or a very soft m sound at the beginning. Sorta, M’cage, the ’a’ being a long ā.

The correct pronunciation is Muh Kay Juh. I named my son Micajah after my great great grandfather Micajah McPherson

I believe that everyone who is posting the spelling has Muh(like mustard) Kay(like Kayak) yuh (like young) is correct - - but others pronouncing it like Cage are correct too. It’s one of those names that it depends on what part of the country and where you decide to put the emphasis on the name. My G G grandfather’s name was Micajah and on the family tree they have "Cage" in the middle of his name as his "nickname"...so I’m guessing that they pronounced his name with the Cage emphasis. The meaning of the name is: Meaning: derived from Michael; one who is like God
Additional Information: Can be found in 2 Kings Ch 22 of the Old Testament. Micaiah is a prophet.

Oh, I forgot to add about name emphasis - I had a coworker who’s name was Debora, most people wouldn’t think twice and would pronounce it as Debra....NOPE it was De-BORE-ah

We named our son Micajah too(b.2007). There are several Micajahs in my family tree. We pronounce it muh(or mih)-KAY-juh. So, I concur with Sandy:). We are from North Carolina.

My name is Hannah Hisaw My ancestor named micajah also fought in the revolutionary war...micajah frost born 1762 volunteered in the warm winter and served 3 months with captain Elliott. He was engaged against the Cherokee Indians and was wounded by an arrow..he also served two times as a spy both for 2 months. He was ranked as a private pension number S-31043. His wife was Nancy Robbins (Frost) father was Thomas frost Sr. Mother was Sarah Nancy frost (Harmon) he has 4 siblings and 5 children. Email me for more info on frost family if this is who you're talking about hmhisaw23@gmail.com

I have a ggrandfather who had a brother named Macajah Whorton
Love the name, hope that one on my future grandsons will have that name.
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I have an ancestor named Micajah Smith, but they also include Cage as part of his name. So I'm assuming in his case at least that's was the way they pronounced the caj. He was born 1770 died 1803.

My name is Micajah, and I pronounce it Mike-Asia. Where the first part is also my nickname Mike, and the second part pronounced like the continent Asia.