Makaiya
Makaiya was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,680 among girls’ names; 525 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makaiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makaiya?
#12,680 among girls’ names, 2025
Makaiya fell from #10,592 in 2015 to #12,680 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 4.4 per million.
44 babies in 2007, the peak
Makaiya peaked in 2007, when 44 girls were given it, #3,695 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 16% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,680 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,820 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,372 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,332 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,508 | 9.1 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,805 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,905 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,288 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,200 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,450 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,592 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,342 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,255 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,769 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,866 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,530 | 14.1 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,480 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,224 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,695 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,741 | 10.0 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,930 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,443 | 16.9 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,758 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,501 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,480 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,412 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,090 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makaiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makaiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makaiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makaiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 520 Americans named Makaiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 364 people named Makaiya (361 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 451 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,975 babies since 1880, Makaiya is the seventh most given (4.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 128 babies (5.5%), again the seventh most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Makaiya
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Makaiya and names like it
- Compare Makaiya and MakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakaiya peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makaiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makaiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makaiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.