# Makai (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/makai/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,609 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 9,298 / 311 (3% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 360, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 19,098 |
| 2010 | 15 | 8,146 |
| 2011 | 22 | 6,067 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,493 |
| 2013 | 10 | 10,728 |
| 2014 | 14 | 8,337 |
| 2015 | 12 | 9,295 |
| 2016 | 14 | 8,247 |
| 2017 | 10 | 10,441 |
| 2018 | 15 | 7,618 |
| 2019 | 7 | 13,281 |
| 2020 | 20 | 6,002 |
| 2021 | 10 | 10,030 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,141 |
| 2023 | 11 | 9,376 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 356 | 666 |
| 2012 | 348 | 680 |
| 2013 | 348 | 691 |
| 2014 | 341 | 709 |
| 2015 | 371 | 681 |
| 2016 | 422 | 634 |
| 2017 | 411 | 631 |
| 2018 | 484 | 571 |
| 2019 | 499 | 559 |
| 2020 | 518 | 550 |
| 2021 | 534 | 547 |
| 2022 | 572 | 518 |
| 2023 | 611 | 492 |
| 2024 | 559 | 533 |
| 2025 | 626 | 481 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,251 |
| 2012 | 15 | 1,589 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,462 |
| 2014 | 21 | 1,223 |
| 2015 | 13 | 1,786 |
| 2016 | 21 | 1,271 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 12 | 1,875 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 20 | 1,290 |
| 2022 | 19 | 1,366 |
| 2023 | 20 | 1,309 |
| 2024 | 17 | 1,517 |
| 2025 | 17 | 1,538 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.