Makeda
Makeda was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,363 among girls’ names; 1,767 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,730 Americans named Makeda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makeda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makeda?
#7,363 among girls’ names, 2025
Makeda fell from #5,062 in 2015 to #7,363 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 9.3 per million.
85 babies in 1985, the peak
Makeda peaked in 1985, when 85 girls were given it, #1,467 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,363 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,897 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,567 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 29 | #4,739 | 17.7 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,910 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,771 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,309 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 35 | #4,121 | 20.6 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,043 | 21.4 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,972 | 21.4 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #5,062 | 15.1 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,398 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,712 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,033 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,463 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,309 | 11.8 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,481 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,481 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,324 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 31 | #4,648 | 16.3 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,052 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 37 | #3,870 | 20.1 |
| 2003 | 33 | #4,078 | 18.1 |
| 2002 | 38 | #3,556 | 21.1 |
| 2001 | 29 | #4,278 | 16.1 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,370 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 38 | #3,351 | 21.4 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,606 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,754 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 40 | #2,998 | 22.8 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,537 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 37 | #3,141 | 20.7 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,019 | 21.6 |
| 1992 | 51 | #2,497 | 27.7 |
| 1991 | 44 | #2,715 | 23.5 |
| 1990 | 55 | #2,300 | 29.0 |
| 1989 | 40 | #2,787 | 21.7 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,618 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,465 | 24.2 |
| 1986 | 38 | #2,593 | 22.2 |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,467 | 49.4 |
| 1984 | 35 | #2,653 | 20.8 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,458 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,990 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,111 | 16.8 |
| 1980 | 30 | #2,971 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,500 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,059 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,229 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,363 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,583 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,505 | 12.9 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,270 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,217 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,814 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,776 | 2.9 |
| 1969 | 14 | #3,891 | 8.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,703 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makeda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makeda has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makeda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makeda, and how old are they?
1,730 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,767 Americans ever recorded as Makeda. The median Makeda alive today is 30 years old; half are between 17 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 1,564 people named Makeda (1,560 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,612 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 223 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 674 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 476 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 354 |
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 Makeda born?
The states with the most babies named Makeda are New York, Florida and California, with 92% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 360 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Florida | 55 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Georgia | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Texas | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Illinois | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Makeda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makeda is most over-represented in New York: since 1968 it was given 3.0 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 Makeda 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,831 babies since 1880, Makeda is the most given (97% of them).
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 Makeda
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 Makeda and names like it
- Compare Makeda and MakdaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMakeda peaked in 1985.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makeda since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Makeda.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Makeda alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.