Makhia
Makhia was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,683 among girls’ names; 771 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 Makhia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makhia?
#12,683 among girls’ names, 2025
Makhia fell from #7,154 in 2015 to #12,683 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 4.4 per million.
78 babies in 2003, the peak
Makhia peaked in 2003, when 78 girls were given it, #2,216 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,683 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,590 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,950 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,656 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,782 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,975 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,282 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,569 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,119 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,807 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #7,154 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,346 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,422 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,348 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,772 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,826 | 34.9 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,718 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,196 | 28.0 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,774 | 34.3 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,040 | 29.5 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,770 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,827 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,216 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,918 | 28.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,919 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,734 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makhia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makhia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makhia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makhia, and how old are they?
An estimated 764 Americans named Makhia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 568 people named Makhia (553 women and girls, 15 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 722 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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).
How common is the spelling Makhia?
Makhia is a less common spelling of Makiyah: SSA has recorded 771 Makhia and 3,568 Makiyah since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 14,338 babies since 1880, Makhia is the seventh most given (5.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 194 babies (3.6%), the eighth 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 Makhia
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 Makhia and names like it
- Compare Makhia and MakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakhia peaked in 2003.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makhia since 1910.
- The top names of 2003The year the most babies were named Makhia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makhia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.