Meaning not yet researched.
Makari: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 257 in 2025. Its best rank was #918 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 92% of babies named Makari in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#918 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Makari: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 257 boys in 2025. Peak: #918 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 257 (2025).
In 2025, 257 US boys were named Makari, making it the 918th most common boys’ name of the year, up 56 places from #974 in 2024. That is 24 more than the 233 boys named Makari in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #918, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 257. For comparison, it was #2,840 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Makari, making it the 5,841st most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,985 places from #7,826 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 14 girls named Makari in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,120, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 26. For comparison, it was #12,549 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makari in 28 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1998 with 7 babies. In all, 2,045 US babies have been given the name, 11% of them girls and 89% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,250 babies named Makari.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,411 US boys were named Makari; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 257. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,646 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makari ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #306 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Macario, Macaria and Macari are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Macario (2,824), Macaria (385), Macari (257), Makaria (85), Makario (31), Mahkari (27), Makyrie (17), Makarri (17), Makkari (16), Makarie (5), Makauri (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Makari in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 11 | #306 | — |
| Alabama | 12 | #438 | — |
| Virginia | 17 | #468 | #1,084 |
| Missouri | 12 | #506 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #535 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #575 | — |
| Michigan | 12 | #665 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #696 | — |
| Ohio | 12 | #739 | — |
| Georgia | 13 | #740 | #1,176 |
| Maryland | 6 | #775 | — |
| Florida | 19 | #796 | #1,863 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #808 | — |
| Louisiana | 5 | #860 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #914 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #976 | — |
| Texas | 22 | #1,060 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,508 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,551 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,841 | 257 | #918 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,826 | 233 | #974 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,323 | 191 | #1,110 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,120 | 193 | #1,110 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,577 | 148 | #1,285 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,105 | 120 | #1,445 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,907 | 91 | #1,733 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,965 | 63 | #2,200 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,576 | 58 | #2,287 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,569 | 57 | #2,324 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,549 | 42 | #2,840 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,205 | 35 | #3,191 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,731 | 30 | #3,551 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,152 | 46 | #2,659 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,056 | 47 | #2,617 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,403 | 36 | #3,155 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,185 | 26 | #3,990 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,862 | 20 | #4,837 |
| 2007 | — | — | 16 | #5,592 |
| 2006 | — | — | 16 | #5,451 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,696 | 18 | #4,755 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,402 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,030 | 18 | #4,549 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,101 | 9 | #7,426 |
| 2001 | — | — | 8 | #8,030 |
| 2000 | — | — | 10 | #6,648 |
| 1999 | — | — | 5 | #10,962 |
| 1998 | — | — | 7 | #8,123 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).