Makani
Makani is given to both girls and boys: 11 girls and 15 boys were given it in 2025 (#9,242 among girls’ names and #6,032 among boys’, #8,759 among all names counting both); 516 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makani by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makani?
#6,032 among boys’ names, 2025
Makani rose from #6,175 in 2015 to #6,032 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.3 to 8.8 per million.
51 babies in 2022, the peak
Makani peaked in 2022, when 51 babies were given it (27 boys, #4,051 among boys’ names). The 26 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,242 | 15 | #6,032 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,749 | 22 | #4,645 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,883 | 24 | #4,416 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,414 | 27 | #4,051 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,780 | 19 | #5,043 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,806 | 13 | #6,494 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,014 | 11 | #7,444 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,206 | 14 | #6,205 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,700 | 10 | #7,925 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 10 | #7,936 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 5 | #18,128 | 14 | #6,175 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 12 | #6,906 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 10 | #7,882 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 12 | #6,874 | |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,047 | 9 | #8,515 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 17 | #5,390 | |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,473 | 13 | #6,672 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 14 | #6,282 | |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,782 | 15 | #5,813 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,347 | 22 | #4,313 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 17 | #4,947 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 8 | #8,622 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,352 | 12 | #6,107 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 8 | #8,154 | |
| 2001 | under 5 | 6 | #10,054 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 8 | #7,908 | |
| 1996 | under 5 | 9 | #6,307 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Makani a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 516 Americans recorded as Makani, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makani: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makani, and how old are they?
An estimated 511 Americans named Makani 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 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 367 people named Makani (103 women and girls, 264 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 313 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,376 babies since 1880, Makani is the second most given (38% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 51 babies (51%), the 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 Makani
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 Makani and names like it
- Compare Makani and MakanaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMakani peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makani since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Makani.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makani alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.