Makiya

#4,716 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Makiya has been given to 3,060 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,716 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 206 recorded.

Babies named Makiya, 2025

1 in 114,000

Makiya over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makiya: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makiya means

Makiya is a given name.

The naming story behind Makiya

Wikidata records Makiya as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q137210331, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,046 girls were recorded with the name Makiya between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 206 in 2004; its best national rank was #1,111 in 2004.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,432 in 2020 to #4,716 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,765 in 2015 to #4,716 in 2025.

In the United States, 14 boys were recorded with the name Makiya between 2002 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2002; its best national rank was #8,156 in 2002.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Makiya?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 114,000; 29 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 55,400; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #4,716; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 79,239 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Makiya sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makiyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makiya was born before 2007 — so the typical Makiya is around 18 today.

Median birth year: 2007; About 18 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 57.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 87.7%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 3,046; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 57.0% of all recorded uses (1,737).

Is Makiya 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: +261; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −1,284; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,951; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.45×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 14.1%; Peak was 2004 (206)
Years since peak: 21; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,111; 2004

Spellings of Makiya

Makiya is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 44.7% against Makiya's 0.24%.

Maria44.7%566,111
Maya9.8%123,587
Makayla8.5%108,030
Marisa3.8%48,707
Marina3.1%39,514
Malia2.5%31,606
Maia1.4%18,200
Aniya1.4%18,085

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 Makiya is used

Across 1910–2025, Makiya was most concentrated in Tennessee — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 67,549 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Tennessee1 in 20,000
2District of Columbia1 in 25,000
3Georgia1 in 25,000
4Mississippi1 in 25,000
5North Carolina1 in 25,000
6Alabama1 in 33,333
7Maryland1 in 33,333
8Arkansas1 in 50,000

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. Makiya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Makiya by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #4,716
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 1,284
Best rank ever: #1,111; 2004
Peak year: 2004; 206 that year
First recorded: 1988
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 3,046
Count in 2025: 29

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #8,156; 2002
Peak year: 2002; 8 that year
First recorded: 2002
Last recorded: 2005
All-time count: 14
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Makiya

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Makaiya Makyla Makiah Makeda Makena Makaela Makiyah Makenzi Makhiya Makaya Makaila Alaiya Laniya Safiya Zakiya Jamiya Kamiya Makala Makyah Makhia Mariya Zaniya Maliya Kaniya

Names with a curve like Makiya

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makiya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

Citlaly Adamaris Gracey Triniti Jaila Shaniyah Jaela Jaedyn Jamaya Arionna Jamiah Karime

Sibling names for Makiya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Jasmyn Jamya Yahaira Elyssa Abigayle Yajaira Vanesa Tayla

For a brother

Kadin Zakary Nathen Jaren Jamarcus Gavyn Kenyon Nevin

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