In 2025, 7 US girls were named Makhia, making it the 12,687th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,908 places from #14,595 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 6 girls named Makhia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,219, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 78. For comparison, it was #7,157 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makhia in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1999 with 6 babies. In all, 771 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 493 babies named Makhia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 84 US girls were named Makhia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Makhi (4,183 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Machiah, Makhiyah and Machiya are summarised on this page.