girls:
42 births since 1999
#5674 (1st percentile)
boys:
35 births since 1994
#4551 (1st percentile)
overall:
77 births since 1994
#7662 (1st percentile)
The name Makay is the #7,662 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 77 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 1.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,674 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 42 births since 1999. For boys, it ranks #4,551 (0.7% percentile) for all time with 35 births since 1994.
Makay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for boys and 1999 for girls). Birth data for Makay is available in 12 out of the 24 years between 1994 and 2017 (8 years for girls and 6 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Makay is truly gender-neutral, with nearly equal distribution between boys and girls. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Makay were girls. Interestingly, until around 2007, the name was more popular for boys (85.7% boys from 1994 to 2006), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (88.1% girls from 2007 to 2017).
For girls, Makay reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #958) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2014, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
For boys, Makay reached its peak popularity in 1999, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #802) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2012.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makay".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Makay is pronounced as muh-KAY, which has 2 syllables.
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