Mahkai
Mahkai was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,625 among boys’ names; 481 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahkai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahkai?
#3,625 among boys’ names, 2025
Mahkai rose from #4,643 in 2015 to #3,625 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.0 to 18.1 per million.
31 babies in 2025, the peak
Mahkai peaked in 2025, when 31 boys were given it, #3,625 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 21 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 31 | #3,625 | 18.1 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,809 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 25 | #4,291 | 14.6 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,050 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,883 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,362 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,734 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,856 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 29 | #3,732 | 15.7 |
| 2016 | 19 | #5,059 | 10.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 21 | #4,643 | 11.0 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,798 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,921 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,625 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,603 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,597 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 27 | #3,884 | 13.6 |
| 2008 | 19 | #4,996 | 9.3 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,646 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 6 | #11,515 | 2.9 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,465 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,335 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,044 | 5.1 |
| 2001 | 7 | #8,876 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahkai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahkai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahkai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahkai, and how old are they?
An estimated 477 Americans named Mahkai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 266 people named Mahkai (8 women and girls, 258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 329 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Mahkai?
Mahkai is a less common spelling of Makai: SSA has recorded 481 Mahkai and 9,609 Makai since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,641 babies since 1880, Mahkai is the seventh most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 869 babies (3.6%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mahkai
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mahkai and names like it
- Compare Mahkai and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMahkai peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahkai since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mahkai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahkai alive today were born 2013-2025.
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