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Makaya

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Makaya is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 11 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
110.00% of girls
Peak year
200771 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1990
1,012people given the name
Babies named Makaya, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,012 girls have been named Makaya in the United States since 1990, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 71 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2000s alone account for 56%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Makaya
1990s137
2000s567
2010s252
2020s56

In 2007, its biggest year

Makaya was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2007 were Emily, Isabella, Emma, Ava and Madison. See all of 2007.

Names that rose and fell with Makaya

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.