Makya
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Makya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Makya come from?
Modern: modern coinage of uncertain origin
Is Makya a girl's or a boy's name?
Makya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls and 5 boys in the US.
How popular is Makya 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 Makya, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2006, with 94 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997. 5 boys were also named Makya in 2025 (12,003rd for boys).
Half of all the girls named Makya 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 Makya 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.
Makya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,276 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,040 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,794 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,125 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,176 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,420 |
| 2012 | 55 | #3,039 |
| 2011 | 51 | #3,221 |
| 2010 | 54 | #3,074 |
| 2009 | 57 | #2,999 |
| 2008 | 67 | #2,718 |
| 2007 | 73 | #2,541 |
| 2006 | 94 | #2,081 |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,072 |
| 2004 | 88 | #2,065 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,635 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,376 |
| 2001 | 53 | #2,762 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,881 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,966 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,355 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
Names like Makya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Aaliyah, Jaliyah, Zariah, Amaya, Malaya, Amira, Kamiyah, Janiyah, Aliya, Alaya
Other spellings of Makya
Names related to Makya
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, “Makya: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makya, updated 20 October 2026.