Makiah
#7,734 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Makiah has been given to 2,761 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #7,734 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 170 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% girls, 19% boys all-time.
Babies named Makiah, 2025
1 in 237,000
Makiah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Makiah over time
In 2025, Makiah went to 36% girls and 64% 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 Makiah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,734
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Makiah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makiah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makiahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Makiah was born before 2007 — so the typical Makiah is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 54.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,238
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (1,219).
Is Makiah 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
- −2,758
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,326
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −4,535
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.27×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.2%
- Peak was 2007 (170)
- Years since peak
- 18
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.4% average annual change
Spellings of Makiah
Makiah is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 50.5% against Makiah's 0.20%.
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.
Where Makiah is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Makiah was most concentrated in Idaho — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 159,243 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Makiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Where Makiah is used — boys
Across 1910–2025, Makiah was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 604,976 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Indiana1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Makiah has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Makiah around the world
Where Makiah ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia2001–2013#818in 2013
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Makiah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Makiah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Makiah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makiah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Makiah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.