Makiah
Makiah is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 25 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,734 among girls’ names and #4,207 among boys’, #6,680 among all names counting both); 2,761 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,730 Americans named Makiah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makiah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makiah?
#7,734 among girls’ names, 2025
Makiah fell from #3,199 in 2015 to #7,734 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 29.1 to 8.7 per million.
191 babies in 2007, the peak
Makiah peaked in 2007, when 191 babies were given it (170 girls, #1,406 among girls’ names). The 39 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,734 | 25 | #4,207 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,976 | 28 | #3,943 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,327 | 18 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,264 | 19 | #5,144 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,688 | 20 | #4,871 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,408 | 13 | #6,495 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,047 | 22 | #4,580 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,425 | 17 | #5,453 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,462 | 19 | #5,040 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,263 | 11 | #7,429 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #3,199 | 20 | #4,828 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,959 | 11 | #7,356 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,337 | 14 | #6,113 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,618 | 8 | #9,385 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,340 | 10 | #7,864 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,908 | 20 | #4,784 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,731 | 26 | #3,989 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,681 | 22 | #4,481 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,406 | 21 | #4,588 |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,543 | 27 | #3,737 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,595 | 11 | #6,918 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,660 | 28 | #3,416 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,549 | 19 | #4,361 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,663 | 16 | #4,826 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,823 | 18 | #4,396 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,264 | 15 | #4,948 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,487 | 18 | #4,091 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,821 | 6 | #9,193 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,503 | 8 | #7,017 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,129 | 7 | #7,657 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,045 | 6 | #8,467 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,403 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,833 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,516 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,038 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Makiah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,761 Americans recorded as Makiah, 81% are girls and 19% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makiah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makiah, and how old are they?
2,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,761 Americans ever recorded as Makiah. The median Makiah alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 1,968 people named Makiah (1,623 women and girls, 345 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,460 born in the U.S. The Census count is 20% 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 | 103 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,860 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 766 |
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 14,008 babies since 1880, Makiah is the third most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 39 of their 157 babies (25%), the second 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 Makiah
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 Makiah and names like it
- Compare Makiah and MakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakiah peaked in 2007.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makiah since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makiah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makiah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.