Makoa
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · #1,118 for boys in 2025, 191 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 192 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,480since 1992
Makoa over time
Rank among boys' names. Makoa has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | #1,118 | 191 |
| 2024 | — | #1,114 | 192 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,432 | 127 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,322 | 142 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,870 | 82 | |
| 2020 | — | #2,094 | 67 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,656 | 48 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,055 | 38 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,840 | 42 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,111 | 37 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,022 | 38 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,864 | 26 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,530 | 30 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,110 | 24 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,812 | 27 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,894 | 41 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,221 | 35 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,868 | 41 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,888 | 25 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,710 | 25 | |
| 2004 | — | #4,421 | 19 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,426 | 18 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,450 | 25 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,974 | 20 | |
| 2000 | — | #5,040 | 14 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,162 | 17 | |
| 1998 | — | #4,873 | 13 | |
| 1997 | — | #6,100 | 9 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #7,770 | 6 | |
| 1993 | — | #8,700 | 5 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,128 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Makoa! It came in at #6,128, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1995, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Makoa is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#61 · 1 in 228
- California#1,254 · 1 in 12,625
- Florida#1,758 · 1 in 18,552
Best ever in a state: #32 in Hawaii, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #61 | 15 | 1 in 228 |
| California | #1,254 | 15 | 1 in 12,625 |
| Florida | #1,758 | 5 | 1 in 18,552 |
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See more about Makoa
- 4 spots since 2024 (#1,114 → #1,118)
- 976 spots since 2020 (#2,094 → #1,118)
- 1,904 spots since 2015 (#3,022 → #1,118)
- Debuted 1992
- Peaked 2024 at #1,114 (192 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,943 boys born in 2025 were named Makoa (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,114 in 2024, was only 1 in 8,973 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 54.1% of all boys named Makoa (801) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 74 | #4,162 (1999) | #6,338 |
| 2000s | 263 | #2,868 (2007) | #3,789 |
| 2010s | 342 | #2,656 (2019) | #3,337 |
| 2020s | 801 | #1,114 (2024) | #1,492 |
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.
Makoa in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 21,335 of them was named Makoa, which outranked 86.7% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,853Summit83
- #1,853Triston83
- #1,853Vander83
- #1,870Makoa82
- #1,870Ansh82
- #1,870Benji82
- #1,870Camari82
- #1,884Asad81
- #1,884Aziah81
- #1,884Breck81
Tied with 13 names at #1,870; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.