Maciah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Maciah by the numbers

Maciah was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 21 babies in 2001, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Maciah

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Maciah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Mariahof the sea; a form of Maria1,604 in the US (2017)
  • Makiahwho is like God; a variant of Micaiah61 in the US (2017)
  • Maliah284 in the US (2017)
  • Maiah44 in the US (2017)
  • Maziah14 in the US (2017)
  • Maniah9 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Maciah

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