Meaning not yet researched.
Makoa: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 191 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,118 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,118 in 2024; #1,119 in 2025. About 96% of babies named Makoa in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,119 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #1,118.
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Makoa: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 191 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,118 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 192 (2024).
In 2025, 191 US boys were named Makoa, making it the 1,119th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1 place from #1,118 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 192 boys named Makoa in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,118, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 192. For comparison, it was #3,061 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makoa in 34 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 8 babies. In all, 1,487 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 808 babies named Makoa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 966 US boys were named Makoa; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 192. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,943 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makoa ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #75 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Macoy, Mako and Maiko are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Macoy (545), Mako (352), Maiko (116), Maikou (38), Makoah (28), Makoy (25), Mayko (12), Makoi (12), Makua (9).
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 Makoa 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 38 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 12 | #75 | #151 |
| Oregon | 6 | #574 | — |
| Colorado | 8 | #657 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #771 | — |
| Kentucky | 5 | #772 | — |
| California | 28 | #856 | #1,508 |
| Washington | 7 | #859 | #1,046 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #897 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #898 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #990 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,227 | — |
| Texas | 17 | #1,239 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,312 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,688 | 191 | #1,119 |
| 2024 | — | — | 192 | #1,118 |
| 2023 | — | — | 127 | #1,437 |
| 2022 | — | — | 142 | #1,327 |
| 2021 | — | — | 82 | #1,881 |
| 2020 | — | — | 67 | #2,106 |
| 2019 | — | — | 48 | #2,679 |
| 2018 | — | — | 38 | #3,083 |
| 2017 | — | — | 42 | #2,872 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,143 |
| 2015 | — | — | 38 | #3,061 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,432 |
| 2013 | — | — | 26 | #3,924 |
| 2012 | — | — | 30 | #3,596 |
| 2011 | — | — | 24 | #4,175 |
| 2010 | — | — | 27 | #3,865 |
| 2009 | — | — | 41 | #2,929 |
| 2008 | — | — | 35 | #3,262 |
| 2007 | — | — | 41 | #2,904 |
| 2006 | — | — | 25 | #3,951 |
| 2005 | — | — | 25 | #3,781 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,531 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,550 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,521 |
| 2001 | — | — | 20 | #4,060 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,219 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,265 |
| 1998 | — | — | 13 | #5,075 |
| 1997 | — | — | 9 | #6,422 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,315 |
| 1995 | — | — | 7 | #7,493 |
| 1994 | — | — | 6 | #8,400 |
| 1993 | — | — | 5 | #9,617 |
| 1992 | — | — | 8 | #6,465 |
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).