Makiya
Makiya was given to 29 girls in 2025, #4,716 among girls’ names; 3,060 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,030 Americans named Makiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makiya?
#4,716 among girls’ names, 2025
Makiya fell from #2,765 in 2015 to #4,716 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 35.9 to 18.0 per million.
206 babies in 2004, the peak
Makiya peaked in 2004, when 206 girls were given it, #1,111 among girls’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #4,716 | 0.02 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,977 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,956 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,637 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 50 | #3,240 | 0.03 |
| 2020 | 45 | #3,432 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,367 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,541 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,463 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 66 | #2,658 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 64 | #2,765 | 0.04 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,526 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 123 | #1,701 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 111 | #1,827 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 137 | #1,590 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 140 | #1,572 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 183 | #1,321 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,429 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 190 | #1,291 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,230 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 196 | #1,179 | 0.11 |
| 2004 | 206 | #1,111 | 0.11 |
| 2003 | 174 | #1,218 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 152 | #1,294 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 142 | #1,351 | 0.08 |
| 2000 | 132 | #1,408 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 69 | #2,190 | 0.04 |
| 1998 | 55 | #2,515 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,962 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 28 | #3,893 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 23 | #4,439 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,524 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,835 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,063 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,485 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,034 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makiya has been given almost only to girls: 14 boys in 36 years of records.
Girls and boys named Makiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makiya, and how old are they?
3,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,060 Americans ever recorded as Makiya. The median Makiya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 2,263 people named Makiya (2,233 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,829 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 | 88 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,270 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 675 |
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 Makiya born?
The states with the most babies named Makiya are Georgia, North Carolina and Illinois, with 30% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 200 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| North Carolina | 173 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Illinois | 171 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 161 | not ranked | 2.3× |
| Michigan | 149 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Alabama | 101 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Florida | 100 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Mississippi | 91 | not ranked | 2.9× |
| Texas | 90 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 86 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Makiya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makiya is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 1988 it was given 2.3 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 girls’ 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 Makiya 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 14,590 babies since 1880, Makiya is the second most given (21% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 165 babies (18%), 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 Makiya
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 Makiya and names like it
- Compare Makiya and MakiyahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakiya peaked in 2004.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makiya since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Makiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.