Makhi
Makhi was given to 90 boys in 2025, #1,787 among boys’ names; 4,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,140 Americans named Makhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makhi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Makhi is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makhi?
#1,787 among boys’ names, 2025
Makhi fell from #1,037 in 2015 to #1,787 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 0.10 to 0.05 per 1,000.
243 babies in 2011, the peak
Makhi peaked in 2011, when 243 babies were given it (237 boys, #882 among boys’ names). The 90 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 90 | #1,787 | 0.05 |
| 2024 | 79 | #1,979 | 0.05 |
| 2023 | 109 | #1,604 | 0.06 |
| 2022 | 113 | #1,571 | 0.06 |
| 2021 | 118 | #1,510 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 139 | #1,305 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 154 | #1,233 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,116 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 191 | #1,051 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 177 | #1,108 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 195 | #1,037 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 222 | #951 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 219 | #931 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 243 | #874 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 237 | #882 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 206 | #962 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 212 | #952 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 209 | #962 | 0.10 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,034 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,083 | 0.08 |
| 2005 | 190 | #926 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 145 | #1,092 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 114 | #1,263 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 75 | #1,611 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 63 | #1,787 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 30 | #2,958 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 35 | #2,529 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 29 | #2,828 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,923 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 7 | #7,656 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Makhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,183 Americans recorded as Makhi, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 90 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makhi, and how old are they?
4,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,183 Americans ever recorded as Makhi. The median Makhi alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,701 people named Makhi (81 women and girls, 2,620 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,539 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 7 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,150 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,990 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Makhi born?
The states with the most babies named Makhi are Florida, Louisiana and Georgia, with 38% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Louisiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 8 | #1,430 | 1.6× |
| Louisiana | 7 | #644 | 3.0× |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,311 | 2.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,227 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 6 | #2,462 | 0.3× |
| Alabama | 6 | #730 | 0.8× |
| Mississippi | 6 | #504 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,361 | 1.5× |
| Missouri | 5 | #954 | 0.9× |
Where Makhi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makhi is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1996 it was given 3.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Makhi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,831 babies since 1880, Makhi is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 90 of their 1,067 babies (8.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Makhi
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 Makhi and names like it
- Compare Makhi and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMakhi peaked in 2011.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makhi since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Makhi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makhi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.