Makaiya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Makaiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Makaiya come from?
Modern: modern coinage of uncertain origin
Is Makaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Makaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Makaiya, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had fewer girls named Makaiya than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Makaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were given Makaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,594, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Makaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,590 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,027 |
| 2021 | 15 | #7,245 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,096 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,725 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,377 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,140 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,652 |
| 2006 | 19 | #6,590 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,795 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,383 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,663 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,457 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,359 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,152 |
| 1999 | 17 | #5,890 |
Names like Makaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Jaliyah, Aaliyah, Kamiyah, Zariah, Amaya, Amira, Malaya, Janiyah, Hadassah, Zayla
Other spellings of Makaiya
Names related to Makaiya
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Makaiya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makaiya, updated 20 October 2026.