Makia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KY-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Makia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Makia come from?
Modern: spelling of Makiah; probably a variant of Micah or Makayla
Meaning borrowed from Makiah.
Is Makia a girl's or a boy's name?
Makia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Makia, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2002, with 63 girls. It first appears in the records in 1972.
2025 had more girls named Makia than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Makia in the US since 1880 were born between 1989 and 2005, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were given Makia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,594, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Makia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,295 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,390 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 16 | #7,368 |
| 2012 | 18 | #6,868 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,734 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,528 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,652 |
| 2006 | 43 | #3,616 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,752 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,707 |
| 2003 | 51 | #2,953 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,494 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,840 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,212 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,893 |
| 1998 | 51 | #2,648 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,871 |
| 1996 | 45 | #2,710 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,873 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,930 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,103 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,521 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,437 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,518 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,280 |
| 1988 | 13 | #5,890 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,119 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,184 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,729 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,873 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,685 |
| 1982 | 19 | #4,024 |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,624 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,244 |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,333 |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,942 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,611 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,677 |
| 1975 | 35 | #2,321 |
| 1974 | 28 | #2,616 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,290 |
Nicknames for Makia
Names like Makia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah, Aliya, Samira, Amira, Summer, Safiya, Amia, Maya, Kaliyah, Malia, Safia, Zaniyah
Other spellings of Makia
Names related to Makia
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, “Makia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makia, updated 20 October 2026.