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Makisha
How to Pronounce Makisha
Pronounced muh-KEE-shuh /mษหki.สษ/Medium
Meaning: Makisha joins a Ma- prefix to the Kisha/Keisha element of the late-century -isha family, whose core is often traced to the biblical Keziah (Hebrew for cassia). It is a coined African American girl's name, warm and rhythmic, its meaning carried by sound and family rather than a single root.Low
Popularity in the U.S. ยท SSA data
U.S. births per year (Social Security Administration, 1880โpresent). Pink marker = peak year.
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History & Origin
Makisha pairs the prefix Ma- with the popular Kisha/Keisha element, part of a broad late-twentieth-century family of invented American girl names. That core is commonly traced to Keziah, a daughter of Job, from Hebrew for the fragrant cassia, lending the coinage a faint scriptural echo.
Makisha's record runs from the early nineteen-seventies into the mid-nineteen-nineties, cresting around 1974, and always uncommon at only a few dozen births in its best year. It reads as a soft, familiar name of its generation.
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What does the name Makisha mean?
Makisha is a coined American name joining a Ma- prefix to the Keisha sound, in the family linked to biblical Keziah.
How do you pronounce Makisha?
It's said muh-KEE-shuh /mษหki.สษ/ โ three syllables, stress on the second.
Is Makisha a boy or girl name?
Makisha is used as a girl's name.
How popular is Makisha?
Makisha was always uncommon, given to only a few dozen girls a year around its mid-nineteen-seventies peak.