Makaio
Makaio was given to 68 boys in 2025, #2,137 among boys’ names; 1,338 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,330 Americans named Makaio and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makaio by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makaio mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Makaio is “a male given name originating from the Bible” Its etymology gives the sense “Matthew” (Mataio).
Vernacular form of the biblical Mataio (“Matthew”).
/maˈkai̯.o/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makaio?
#2,137 among boys’ names, 2025
Makaio rose from #2,893 in 2015 to #2,137 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 21.4 to 39.8 per million.
124 babies in 2024, the peak
Makaio peaked in 2024, when 124 boys were given it, #1,465 among boys’ names. The 68 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 68 | #2,137 | 39.8 |
| 2024 | 124 | #1,465 | 72.0 |
| 2023 | 88 | #1,822 | 51.4 |
| 2022 | 84 | #1,882 | 48.1 |
| 2021 | 87 | #1,809 | 49.7 |
| 2020 | 63 | #2,201 | 36.5 |
| 2019 | 62 | #2,249 | 34.6 |
| 2018 | 52 | #2,495 | 28.6 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,060 | 36.7 |
| 2016 | 68 | #2,077 | 35.8 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 41 | #2,893 | 21.4 |
| 2014 | 40 | #2,914 | 20.8 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,446 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,227 | 31.1 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,161 | 32.1 |
| 2010 | 45 | #2,711 | 23.5 |
| 2009 | 43 | #2,827 | 21.7 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,466 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 36 | #3,165 | 17.3 |
| 2006 | 36 | #3,063 | 17.5 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,284 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 26 | #3,594 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,214 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,864 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,811 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,497 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,953 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,647 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Makaio a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makaio has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makaio: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makaio, and how old are they?
1,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,338 Americans ever recorded as Makaio. The median Makaio alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 734 people named Makaio (8 women and girls, 726 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 833 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 436 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 890 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Makaio born?
The states with the most babies named Makaio are California, Hawaii and Florida, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 8 | #1,932 | 1.8× |
| Hawaii | 7 | #168 | 18.2× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,000 | 0.4× |
Where Makaio is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makaio is most over-represented in California: since 1998 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Makaio with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 17,902 babies since 1880, Makaio is the third most given (7.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 68 of their 898 babies (7.6%), again the third most given.
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 Makaio
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 Makaio and names like it
- Compare Makaio and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMakaio peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makaio since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Makaio.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makaio alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.