Meaning not yet researched.
Makya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,082 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,082 in 2004; #11,542 in 2025. About 62% of babies named Makya in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,542 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,082.
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Makya: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,082 in 2004 · most girls in one year: 94 (2006).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Makya, making it the 11,542nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,056 places from #14,598 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 girls named Makya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,082, reached in 2004. The most girls given the name in a single year was 94, in 2006. For comparison, it was #5,237 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Makya, making it the 13,203rd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #5,686, reached in 2004. That year also had the most boys given the name: 14. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makya in 29 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 7 babies. In all, 1,210 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 8.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 752 babies named Makya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 127 US girls were named Makya; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 22. 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 Makia (1,381 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maiky are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maiky (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 Makya 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 | #11,542 | 5 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,598 | — | — |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,518 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,507 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,329 | — | — |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,746 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,908 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,619 | — | — |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,909 | — | — |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,237 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,232 | — | — |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,504 | 7 | #10,332 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,071 | 7 | #10,377 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,251 | 8 | #9,301 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,102 | — | — |
| 2009 | 57 | #3,031 | 7 | #10,586 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,741 | 8 | #9,534 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,559 | 8 | #9,432 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,094 | 12 | #6,744 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,083 | 12 | #6,475 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,082 | 14 | #5,686 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,659 | 5 | #12,056 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,796 | 5 | #11,665 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,582 | — | — |
| 1997 | 7 | #11,581 | — | — |
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).