Markiya
Markiya was last recorded in 2014, when 10 babies were given it; 200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1989 and 2014 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Markiya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Markiya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,649, in 2014; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2009, the peak
Markiya peaked in 2009, when 17 girls were given it, #7,564 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,649 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,847 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,188 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,817 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,228 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,564 | 9.3 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,305 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,348 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,081 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,669 | 7.0 |
Every recorded year (22)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 14 | #8,084 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,154 | 5.5 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,125 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,684 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,327 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,186 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,119 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,857 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,162 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,822 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,520 | 2.7 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,711 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Markiya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Markiya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 22 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Markiya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Markiya, and how old are they?
An estimated 198 Americans named Markiya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 17 and 25. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Markiya (183 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 198 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Markiya?
Markiya is a less common spelling of Markia: SSA has recorded 200 Markiya and 1,616 Markia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 141,353 babies since 1880, Markiya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 59 babies recorded by SSA was a Markiya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Markiya
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 Markiya and names like it
- Compare Markiya and MarkiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMarkiya peaked in 2009.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Markiya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Markiya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.