Makia
Makia was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,537 among girls’ names; 1,381 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,350 Americans named Makia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 21 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makia mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Makia is “a male given name originating from the Bible” Its etymology gives the sense “Matthias” (Matia).
Vernacular form of the biblical Matia (“Matthias”).
/maˈki.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makia?
#11,537 among girls’ names, 2025
Makia fell from #7,852 in 2015 to #11,537 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 5.0 per million.
69 babies in 2002, the peak
Makia peaked in 2002, when 69 babies were given it (63 girls, #2,516 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,537 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,591 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,619 | 3.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,592 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,693 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,852 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,571 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,611 | 9.1 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,049 | 10.2 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,758 | 10.8 |
Every recorded year (49)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 30 | #4,816 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,326 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,565 | 24.3 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,696 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,657 | 22.6 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,771 | 32.5 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,724 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,979 | 27.9 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,516 | 35.1 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,859 | 28.3 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,247 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,917 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,677 | 28.9 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,909 | 24.1 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,735 | 25.7 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,932 | 15.4 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,966 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,134 | 20.5 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,620 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,493 | 16.5 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,588 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,445 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,126 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,210 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,282 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,794 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,934 | 11.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,803 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,115 | 11.2 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,690 | 13.2 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,422 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,402 | 15.0 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,990 | 17.6 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,700 | 13.0 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,758 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,340 | 24.0 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,654 | 19.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,011 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,826 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,381 Americans recorded as Makia, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Makia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makia, and how old are they?
1,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,381 Americans ever recorded as Makia. The median Makia alive today is 27 years old; half are between 21 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 1,260 people named Makia (1,145 women and girls, 115 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,342 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 168 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 702 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 89 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,852 babies since 1880, Makia is the sixth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,208 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Makia
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 Makia and names like it
- Compare Makia and MacieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakia peaked in 2002.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makia since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Makia.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makia alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.