Makari
Makari was given to 257 boys in 2025, #918 among boys’ names; 2,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Makari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 5 years old and half are between 2 and 10.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makari?
#918 among boys’ names, 2025
Makari rose from #2,839 in 2015 to #918 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.15 per 1,000.
278 babies in 2025, the peak
Makari peaked in 2025, when 278 babies were given it (257 boys, #918 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 233 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,840 | 257 | #918 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,821 | 233 | #974 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,318 | 191 | #1,110 |
| 2022 | 26 | #5,117 | 193 | #1,110 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,572 | 148 | #1,285 |
| 2020 | 16 | #7,101 | 120 | #1,445 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,902 | 91 | #1,733 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,960 | 63 | #2,199 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,572 | 58 | #2,286 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,565 | 57 | #2,324 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,544 | 42 | #2,839 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,199 | 35 | #3,189 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,726 | 30 | #3,549 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,145 | 46 | #2,658 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,048 | 47 | #2,616 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,397 | 36 | #3,154 |
| 2009 | 10 | #11,180 | 26 | #3,988 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,858 | 20 | #4,833 |
| 2007 | under 5 | 16 | #5,589 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 16 | #5,447 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,689 | 18 | #4,750 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,397 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,023 | 18 | #4,544 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,095 | 9 | #7,419 |
| 2001 | under 5 | 8 | #8,023 | |
| 2000 | under 5 | 10 | #6,640 | |
| 1999 | under 5 | 5 | #10,954 | |
| 1998 | under 5 | 7 | #8,115 |
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 Makari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,045 Americans recorded as Makari, 11% are girls and 89% boys. In 2025 it went to 21 girls and 257 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Makari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makari, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,045 Americans ever recorded as Makari. The median Makari alive today is 5 years old; half are between 2 and 10.
The 2020 Census counted 635 people named Makari (125 women and girls, 510 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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 | 351 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,680 |
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 Makari born?
The states with the most babies named Makari are Texas, Florida and Virginia, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,060 | 0.4× |
| Florida | 19 | #796 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 17 | #468 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 13 | #740 | 1.4× |
| Illinois | 13 | #696 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 13 | #575 | 0.8× |
| Alabama | 12 | #438 | 1.3× |
| Ohio | 12 | #739 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 12 | #665 | 0.7× |
| Missouri | 12 | #506 | 0.6× |
Where Makari is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makari is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1998 it was given 1.4 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 Makari 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,505 babies since 1880, Makari is the second most given (37% of them). In 2025 it was given to 278 of their 416 babies (67%), 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 Makari
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 Makari and names like it
- Compare Makari and MacarioBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMakari peaked in 2025.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makari since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Makari.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makari alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.