Meaning not yet researched.
Makhi: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 90 in 2025. Its best rank was #874 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #874 in 2012; #1,787 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makhi in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,787 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #874.
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Makhi: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 90 boys in 2025. Peak: #874 in 2012 · most boys in one year: 243 (2012).
In 2025, 90 US boys were named Makhi, making it the 1,787th most common boys’ name of the year, up 192 places from #1,979 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 79 boys named Makhi in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #874, reached in 2012. That year also had the most boys given the name: 243. For comparison, it was #1,037 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makhi in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 7 babies. In all, 4,183 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,044 babies named Makhi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,345 US boys were named Makhi; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 191. In 2025 that was about 1 in 18,979 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makhi ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #504 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Makhia (771 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Machi, Makhiya and Makhya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Machi (340), Makhiya (190), Makhya (121), Makhy (27), Makhyia (20), Machia (11), Makhii (11), Mahkhi (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Makhi in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 6 | #504 | #602 |
| Louisiana | 7 | #644 | #527 |
| Alabama | 6 | #730 | #671 |
| Missouri | 5 | #954 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,227 | #954 |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,311 | #529 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,361 | #832 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,430 | #559 |
| Texas | 6 | #2,462 | #2,287 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 90 | #1,787 |
| 2024 | — | — | 79 | #1,979 |
| 2023 | — | — | 109 | #1,604 |
| 2022 | — | — | 113 | #1,571 |
| 2021 | — | — | 118 | #1,510 |
| 2020 | — | — | 139 | #1,305 |
| 2019 | — | — | 154 | #1,233 |
| 2018 | — | — | 175 | #1,116 |
| 2017 | — | — | 191 | #1,051 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,515 | 177 | #1,108 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,940 | 195 | #1,037 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,832 | 222 | #951 |
| 2013 | — | — | 219 | #931 |
| 2012 | — | — | 243 | #874 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,061 | 237 | #882 |
| 2010 | — | — | 206 | #962 |
| 2009 | — | — | 212 | #952 |
| 2008 | — | — | 209 | #962 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,330 | 182 | #1,034 |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,976 | 163 | #1,083 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,925 | 190 | #926 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,773 | 145 | #1,093 |
| 2003 | — | — | 114 | #1,264 |
| 2002 | — | — | 75 | #1,614 |
| 2001 | — | — | 63 | #1,791 |
| 2000 | — | — | 30 | #2,964 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,533 |
| 1998 | — | — | 29 | #2,831 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,929 |
| 1996 | — | — | 7 | #7,663 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).