Mako — #4938 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mako

The Social Security Administration has registered 241 babies named Mako between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mako currently holds the #4938 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Mako is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 65 additional births since 1996.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mako performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 121 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mako shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Florida, which accounts for 31 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Mako in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mako in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 241 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.