Makya
Makya is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 5 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,538 among girls’ names and #13,199 among boys’, #14,013 among all names counting both); 1,210 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Makya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 15 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makya?
#11,538 among girls’ names, 2025
Makya fell from #5,235 in 2015 to #11,538 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 5.0 per million.
106 babies in 2006, the peak
Makya peaked in 2006, when 106 babies were given it (94 girls, #2,094 among girls’ names). The 13 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 12% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,538 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,593 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,512 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,502 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,324 | 6.7 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,741 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,903 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,615 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,201 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,907 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 26 | #5,235 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,230 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,502 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,070 | 31.2 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,250 | 29.0 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,101 | 30.4 |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,030 | 31.0 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,741 | 35.4 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,559 | 38.0 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,094 | 49.4 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,082 | 48.7 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,080 | 47.9 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,656 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,398 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,792 | 29.4 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,940 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,033 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,577 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,576 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,210 Americans recorded as Makya, 92% are girls and 8% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makya, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,210 Americans ever recorded as Makya. The median Makya alive today is 19 years old; half are between 15 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,001 people named Makya (895 women and girls, 106 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,141 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 968 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 230 |
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 47,123 babies since 1880, Makya is the sixth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 548 babies (2.4%), the fifth 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 Makya
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 Makya and names like it
- Compare Makya and MacyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakya peaked in 2006.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makya since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Makya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.