Mako
Mako is given to both girls and boys: 6 girls and 40 boys were given it in 2025 (#14,284 among girls’ names and #3,063 among boys’, #5,958 among all names counting both); 352 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mako by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mako?
#3,063 among boys’ names, 2025
Mako rose from #6,563 in 2015 to #3,063 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 23.4 per million.
46 babies in 2025, the peak
Mako peaked in 2025, when 46 babies were given it (40 boys, #3,063 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 20 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,284 | 40 | #3,063 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,756 | 20 | #4,983 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,702 | 27 | #4,078 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,658 | 28 | #3,951 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 24 | #4,321 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 22 | #4,501 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 24 | #4,289 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 10 | #7,945 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,537 | |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,458 | 14 | #6,219 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,688 | 13 | #6,563 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,210 | 7 | #10,321 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 12 | #6,870 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,369 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 5 | #13,586 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,793 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,102 | 5 | #13,735 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,706 | 5 | #13,823 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,357 | under 5 | |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,903 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 5 | #6,455 |
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 Mako a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 352 Americans recorded as Mako, 20% are girls and 80% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mako: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mako, and how old are they?
An estimated 349 Americans named Mako and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 524 people named Mako (313 women and girls, 211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 170 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.1 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,171 babies since 1880, Mako is the eighth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 46 of their 1,164 babies (4.0%), the seventh 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 Mako
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 Mako and names like it
- Compare Mako and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mako.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mako alive today were born 2013-2025.
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