Makhai
Makhai was given to 28 boys in 2025, #3,913 among boys’ names; 973 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makhai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makhai?
#3,913 among boys’ names, 2025
Makhai fell from #2,550 in 2015 to #3,913 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.6 to 16.4 per million.
59 babies in 2017, the peak
Makhai peaked in 2017, when 59 boys were given it, #2,260 among boys’ names. The 28 births of 2025 are 47% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #3,913 | 16.4 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,035 | 15.7 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,094 | 23.4 |
| 2022 | 51 | #2,637 | 29.2 |
| 2021 | 57 | #2,398 | 32.6 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,008 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 53 | #2,511 | 29.5 |
| 2018 | 48 | #2,626 | 26.4 |
| 2017 | 59 | #2,260 | 31.9 |
| 2016 | 49 | #2,578 | 25.8 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 49 | #2,550 | 25.6 |
| 2014 | 48 | #2,560 | 25.0 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,385 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 45 | #2,702 | 23.7 |
| 2011 | 36 | #3,147 | 19.0 |
| 2010 | 40 | #2,942 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 46 | #2,685 | 23.2 |
| 2008 | 41 | #2,919 | 20.1 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,414 | 15.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #2,958 | 18.5 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,885 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 20 | #4,356 | 10.1 |
| 2003 | 19 | #4,360 | 9.6 |
| 2002 | 13 | #5,603 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,277 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 7 | #8,116 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Makhai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makhai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makhai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makhai, and how old are they?
An estimated 964 Americans named Makhai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 537 people named Makhai (11 women and girls, 526 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 735 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Makhai?
Makhai is a less common spelling of Makai: SSA has recorded 973 Makhai and 9,609 Makai since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,831 babies since 1880, Makhai is the sixth most given (4.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 28 of their 1,067 babies (2.6%), again the sixth most given.
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 Makhai
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 Makhai and names like it
- Compare Makhai and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMakhai peaked in 2017.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makhai since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Makhai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makhai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.