Makhia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Makhia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Where does Makhia come from?
Modern: spelling of Makiah; probably a variant of Micah or Makayla
Meaning borrowed from Makiah.
Is Makhia a girl's or a boy's name?
Makhia 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 Makhia 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 Makhia, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 78 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
Half of all the girls named Makhia in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were given Makhia 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.
Makhia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,205 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,315 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,294 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,802 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,704 |
| 2008 | 53 | #3,157 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,750 |
| 2006 | 56 | #3,016 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,752 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,804 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,200 |
| 2002 | 51 | #2,884 |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
Nicknames for Makhia
Names like Makhia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Jaliyah, Zariah, Kamiyah, Malaya, Amaya, Amira, Zaniya, Janiyah, Aliya
Other spellings of Makhia
Names related to Makhia
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, “Makhia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makhia, updated 20 October 2026.