Markisha
Markisha was last recorded in 2007, when 6 babies were given it; 1,136 Americans have been recorded with it between 1972 and 2007 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Markisha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 33 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markisha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markisha?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,827, in 2007; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
67 babies in 1979, the peak
Markisha peaked in 1979, when 67 girls were given it, #1,671 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #16,827 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,141 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,740 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,334 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,153 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,628 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,660 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,683 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,400 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,500 | 10.8 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 25 | #4,319 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,684 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 44 | #2,762 | 25.0 |
| 1994 | 36 | #3,194 | 20.2 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,159 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,471 | 28.2 |
| 1991 | 62 | #2,144 | 33.1 |
| 1990 | 45 | #2,622 | 23.7 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,320 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 36 | #2,905 | 20.2 |
| 1987 | 47 | #2,294 | 27.0 |
| 1986 | 52 | #2,066 | 30.3 |
| 1985 | 44 | #2,302 | 25.6 |
| 1984 | 54 | #1,935 | 32.1 |
| 1983 | 45 | #2,179 | 26.9 |
| 1982 | 37 | #2,564 | 21.9 |
| 1981 | 32 | #2,827 | 19.2 |
| 1980 | 48 | #2,143 | 28.9 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,671 | 41.7 |
| 1978 | 49 | #1,979 | 32.0 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,882 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,475 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,018 | 16.5 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,801 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,069 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,080 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markisha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markisha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markisha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markisha, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,136 Americans ever recorded as Markisha. The median Markisha alive today is 39 years old; half are between 33 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 868 people named Markisha (864 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% 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 X | 1965-1980 | 256 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 701 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 144 |
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 Markisha born?
The states with the most babies named Markisha are California, Texas and Illinois, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 106 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 19 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Markisha 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,191 babies since 1880, Markisha is the second most given (27% of them).
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 Markisha
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 Markisha and names like it
- Compare Markisha and MarkeishaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMarkisha peaked in 1979.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Markisha since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Markisha.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Markisha alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.