Meaning not yet researched.
Makiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 25 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,420 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,420 in 2004; #4,208 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Makiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,208 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #3,420.
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Makiah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 25 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,420 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 28 (2024).
In 2025, 25 US boys were named Makiah, making it the 4,208th most common boys’ name of the year, down 263 places from #3,945 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 28 boys named Makiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,420, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 28, in 2024. For comparison, it was #4,830 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Makiah, making it the 7,736th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,757 places from #4,979 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 27 girls named Makiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,406, reached in 2007. That year also had the most girls given the name: 170. For comparison, it was #3,199 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makiah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 9 babies. In all, 2,761 US babies have been given the name, 81% of them girls and 19% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,422 babies named Makiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 192 US boys were named Makiah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 68,323 of the boys 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), Makia (1,381 babies since 1880) and Makya (1,210 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Makiah 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 | 14 | #7,736 | 25 | #4,208 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,979 | 28 | #3,945 |
| 2023 | 33 | #4,329 | 18 | #5,391 |
| 2022 | 34 | #4,266 | 19 | #5,148 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,692 | 20 | #4,875 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,410 | 13 | #6,499 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,048 | 22 | #4,584 |
| 2018 | 46 | #3,426 | 17 | #5,457 |
| 2017 | 45 | #3,463 | 19 | #5,044 |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,263 | 11 | #7,434 |
| 2015 | 52 | #3,199 | 20 | #4,830 |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,961 | 11 | #7,361 |
| 2013 | 79 | #2,337 | 14 | #6,118 |
| 2012 | 69 | #2,618 | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2011 | 80 | #2,340 | 10 | #7,871 |
| 2010 | 106 | #1,908 | 20 | #4,786 |
| 2009 | 127 | #1,731 | 26 | #3,991 |
| 2008 | 133 | #1,681 | 22 | #4,484 |
| 2007 | 170 | #1,406 | 21 | #4,590 |
| 2006 | 142 | #1,543 | 27 | #3,739 |
| 2005 | 128 | #1,596 | 11 | #6,924 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,661 | 28 | #3,420 |
| 2003 | 125 | #1,550 | 19 | #4,366 |
| 2002 | 111 | #1,664 | 16 | #4,832 |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,827 | 18 | #4,402 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,268 | 15 | #4,955 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,490 | 18 | #4,096 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,824 | 6 | #9,201 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,506 | 8 | #7,023 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,134 | 7 | #7,664 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,050 | 6 | #8,474 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,409 | — | — |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,839 | — | — |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,522 | — | — |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,045 | — | — |
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).