girls:
3.4k births since 1994
#2959 (48th percentile)
boys:
25 births since 2001
#4561 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.4k births since 1994
#4663 (40th percentile)
The name Makiyah is the #4,663 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,447 recorded births since 1994. This represents the 39.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 39.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,959 (48.2% percentile) for all time with 3,422 births since 1994. For boys, it ranks #4,561 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 25 births since 2001.
Makiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1994 (1994 for girls and 2001 for boys).
The name Makiyah has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Makiyah reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 22.4% percentile (ranked #764) with 108 births per million. The name was most common in 2008, with 108 births per million (ranked 22.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2011, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Makiyah ranks #884 for girls (6.7% percentile) with 39 births per million, which is 36.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Makiyah reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #880) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makiyah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Makiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.6% confident that Makiyah is pronounced as muh-KEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KAI-yuh, at 18.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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