Macaiah
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Macaiah has been given to 113 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2002, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.
Babies named Macaiah, 2019
1 in 496,000
Macaiah over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Macaiah over time
In 2025, Macaiah went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Macaiah?
Macaiah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 240,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Macaiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macaiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Macaiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Macaiah was born before 2006 — so the typical Macaiah is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 76.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 71
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 76.1% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Macaiah rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2002 (10)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.1% average annual change
Spellings of Macaiah
Macaiah is not the most common spelling — Mariah is, with 83.9% against Macaiah's 0.05%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Macaiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Macaiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Macaiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.