Makiyah
Makiyah was given to 56 girls in 2025, #2,981 among girls’ names; 3,568 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,540 Americans named Makiyah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 10 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makiyah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makiyah?
#2,981 among girls’ names, 2025
Makiyah fell from #1,587 in 2015 to #2,981 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 77.3 to 34.8 per million.
226 babies in 2008, the peak
Makiyah peaked in 2008, when 226 girls were given it, #1,142 among girls’ names. The 56 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,981 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,711 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 68 | #2,606 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 78 | #2,380 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 93 | #2,062 | 0.06 |
| 2020 | 93 | #2,017 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 103 | #1,926 | 0.06 |
| 2018 | 127 | #1,661 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 117 | #1,787 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 116 | #1,792 | 0.07 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 138 | #1,587 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 124 | #1,704 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 165 | #1,398 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 183 | #1,297 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 191 | #1,253 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 197 | #1,226 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 187 | #1,298 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 226 | #1,142 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 216 | #1,179 | 0.11 |
| 2006 | 196 | #1,231 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 178 | #1,264 | 0.10 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,406 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,750 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,741 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,813 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,762 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 41 | #3,167 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,607 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 15 | #6,367 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,575 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,856 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,812 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makiyah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makiyah has been given almost only to girls: 25 boys in 32 years of records.
Girls and boys named Makiyah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makiyah, and how old are they?
3,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,568 Americans ever recorded as Makiyah. The median Makiyah alive today is 16 years old; half are between 10 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,346 people named Makiyah (2,308 women and girls, 38 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,116 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% 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 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,180 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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 Makiyah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,380 | 1.9× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,702 | 2.5× |
Where Makiyah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makiyah is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1994 it was given 3.2 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 Makiyah 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 14,344 babies since 1880, Makiyah is the most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 56 of their 165 babies (34%), again the most given.
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 Makiyah
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 Makiyah and names like it
- Compare Makiyah and MakiyaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakiyah peaked in 2008.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makiyah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Makiyah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makiyah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.