Makani — #4796 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Makani

The Social Security Administration has registered 355 babies named Makani between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Makani currently holds the #4796 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 27 babies received it in a single year. Makani is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 134 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Makani performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 123 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Makani shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 27 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Hawaii and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Makani in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Makani in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 355 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.