Maki
Maki was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,660 among boys’ names; 730 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maki?
#8,660 among boys’ names, 2025
Maki fell from #6,926 in 2015 to #8,660 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.3 to 5.3 per million.
45 babies in 2005, the peak
Maki peaked in 2005, when 45 babies were given it (38 boys, #2,826 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,660 | |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,954 | 7 | #10,528 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,700 | 6 | #11,723 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,657 | 5 | #13,601 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,597 | 17 | #5,467 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,237 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 10 | #7,987 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 11 | #7,434 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,472 | 9 | #8,571 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,453 | 14 | #6,218 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 12 | #6,926 | |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,206 | 19 | #4,988 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 21 | #4,558 | |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,543 | 27 | #3,849 |
| 2011 | under 5 | 28 | #3,746 | |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,404 | 36 | #3,155 |
| 2009 | 6 | #16,479 | 31 | #3,521 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,381 | 33 | #3,393 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,787 | 25 | #4,075 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 40 | #2,860 | |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,919 | 38 | #2,826 |
| 2004 | under 5 | 37 | #2,823 | |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,358 | 17 | #4,729 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,102 | 19 | #4,267 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,921 | 13 | #5,554 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,590 | 6 | #9,844 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,735 | 11 | #5,893 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #10,650 | |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,317 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #9,747 | |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,811 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,288 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,476 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,483 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,295 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,276 | under 5 | |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,403 | under 5 | |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,415 | under 5 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,596 | under 5 | |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,240 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,584 | under 5 | |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,204 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,635 | under 5 | |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,101 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,825 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,612 | under 5 |
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 Maki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 730 Americans recorded as Maki, 29% are girls and 71% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maki, and how old are they?
An estimated 718 Americans named Maki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,652 people named Maki (1,129 women and girls, 523 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.5 times 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).
How common is the spelling Maki?
Maki is a less common spelling of Makhi: SSA has recorded 730 Maki and 4,183 Makhi since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,983 babies since 1880, Maki is the eighth most given (3.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 1,076 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Maki
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 Maki and names like it
- Compare Maki and MakhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaki peaked in 2005.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maki since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Maki.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maki alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.