girls:
52 births since 2004
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
4k births since 1996
#1958 (57th percentile)
overall:
4k births since 1996
#4336 (44th percentile)
The name Makhi is the #4,336 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,011 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 44.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 44.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,958 (57.3% percentile) for all time with 3,959 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 2004.
Makhi first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2004 for girls).
The name Makhi has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Makhi reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 26.0% percentile (ranked #666) with 120 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 120 births per million (ranked 26.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2014, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Makhi ranks #807 for boys (11.4% percentile) with 60 births per million, which is 49.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Makhi reached its peak popularity in 2007, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #982) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2007, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makhi".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Makhi. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 54.3% confident that Makhi is pronounced as MAH-kee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KEE, at 34.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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