Makai
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #8,989 · #481 for boys in 2025, 626 births
Given to boys 96.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 626 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 9,298since 1989
Makai over time
Rank among boys' names. Makai has never cracked the top 400 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #481 | 626 | |
| 2024 | — | #532 | 559 | |
| 2023 | #8,989 | 11 | #491 | 611 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #518 | 572 |
| 2021 | #9,562 | 10 | #547 | 534 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 | #549 | 518 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 | #559 | 499 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 | #570 | 484 |
| 2017 | #9,943 | 10 | #631 | 411 |
| 2016 | #7,988 | 14 | #634 | 422 |
| 2015 | #8,931 | 12 | #681 | 371 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 | #708 | 341 |
| 2013 | #10,235 | 10 | #688 | 348 |
| 2012 | #9,109 | 12 | #680 | 348 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #665 | 356 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 | #689 | 341 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #674 | 361 |
| 2008 | #12,579 | 8 | #893 | 234 |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #878 | 233 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #862 | 232 |
| 2005 | #5,600 | 22 | #820 | 230 |
| 2004 | #6,768 | 17 | #1,101 | 143 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #1,167 | 128 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #1,160 | 122 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | #1,629 | 72 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #1,968 | 52 |
| 1999 | #10,345 | 8 | #1,966 | 49 |
| 1998 | — | #2,349 | 37 | |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 | #3,351 | 21 |
| 1996 | — | #3,830 | 17 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,280 | 14 | |
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| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Makai! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1989–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Makai is popular in 1989
No state had 5 or more boys named Makai in 1989, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Makai
- 51 spots since 2024 (#532 → #481)
- 68 spots since 2020 (#549 → #481)
- 200 spots since 2015 (#681 → #481)
- Biggest jump: 281 spots in 2005 (#1,101 → #820)
- Biggest drop: 42 spots in 2006 (#820 → #862)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2025 at #481 (626 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 21 yrs · run 2005–2025
- Highest: 1 in 2,729 boys born in 2025 were named Makai (0.04%)
- 42.2% of all boys named Makai (3,921) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 145 | #1,966 (1999) | #3,765 |
| 2000s | 1,807 | #674 (2009) | #1,115 |
| 2010s | 3,921 | #559 (2019) | #651 |
| 2020s | 3,420 | #481 (2025) | #520 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Makai in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 400,186 of them was named Makai, which outranked 14.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,327 names at #7,905; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.