Makala
Makala was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 3,403 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,350 Americans named Makala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 21 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makala?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,811, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
277 babies in 1998, the peak
Makala peaked in 1998, when 277 girls were given it, #777 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #16,811 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,592 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,798 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,083 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,567 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,591 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,827 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,750 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,563 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,711 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 47 | #3,445 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,118 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 89 | #2,195 | 0.05 |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,261 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 140 | #1,627 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 109 | #1,905 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,570 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 149 | #1,436 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 152 | #1,376 | 0.08 |
| 2003 | 151 | #1,346 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 188 | #1,113 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 173 | #1,183 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 194 | #1,070 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 227 | #928 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 277 | #777 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 240 | #852 | 0.14 |
| 1996 | 176 | #1,053 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 172 | #1,043 | 0.10 |
| 1994 | 115 | #1,404 | 0.06 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,711 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,112 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,677 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 34 | #3,261 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,840 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,103 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,174 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,631 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,896 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,737 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,180 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,584 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,723 | under 0.01 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,827 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,152 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,847 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,633 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,929 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makala has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Makala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makala, and how old are they?
3,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,403 Americans ever recorded as Makala. The median Makala alive today is 26 years old; half are between 21 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 3,310 people named Makala (3,280 women and girls, 30 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,347 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 769 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,390 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 126 |
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 Makala born?
The states with the most babies named Makala are Texas, Ohio and California, with 28% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 212 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 182 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 174 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 169 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 135 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 126 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 116 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 113 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 68 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Makala is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makala is most over-represented in North Carolina: since 1971 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Makala 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 140,103 babies since 1880, Makala is the fourth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 642 babies recorded by SSA was a Makala (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Makala
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 Makala and names like it
- Compare Makala and MakaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMakala peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makala since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Makala.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makala alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.