Meaning not yet researched.
Makia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,340 in 1975.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,340 in 1975; #11,541 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,541 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1975, at #2,340.
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Makia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,340 in 1975 · most girls in one year: 63 (2002).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Makia, making it the 11,541st most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,055 places from #14,596 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 girls named Makia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,340, reached in 1975. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63, in 2002. For comparison, it was #7,856 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makia in 49 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 6 babies. In all, 1,381 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 504 babies named Makia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 45 US girls were named Makia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Makiyah (3,568 babies since 1880), Makiya (3,060 babies since 1880), Makiah (2,761 babies since 1880) and Makya (1,210 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Makeo, Makei and Maiki 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: Makeo (51), Makei (22), Maiki (10).
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 Makia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,541 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,596 | — | — |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,624 | — | — |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,596 | — | — |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,696 | — | — |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,856 | 5 | #13,307 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,577 | — | — |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,615 | — | — |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,053 | — | — |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,761 | — | — |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,817 | — | — |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,327 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,566 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,697 | — | — |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,658 | 5 | #13,270 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,775 | 6 | #10,975 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,728 | — | — |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,982 | — | — |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,519 | 6 | #10,181 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,863 | — | — |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,251 | — | — |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,680 | — | — |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,912 | — | — |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,739 | 6 | #8,587 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,937 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,139 | — | — |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,626 | — | — |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,499 | — | — |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,451 | — | — |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,131 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,285 | — | — |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,795 | — | — |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,804 | — | — |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,116 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,691 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,423 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,402 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,990 | — | — |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,701 | — | — |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,759 | — | — |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,340 | — | — |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,013 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,828 | — | — |
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).