Makoa
Makoa was given to 191 boys in 2025, #1,119 among boys’ names; 1,487 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Makoa and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 2 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makoa by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makoa mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Makoa is “a male given name from Hawaiian” Its etymology gives the sense “brave” (makoa).
makoa (“brave”).
/maˈko.a/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makoa?
#1,119 among boys’ names, 2025
Makoa rose from #3,060 in 2015 to #1,119 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.11 per 1,000.
198 babies in 2025, the peak
Makoa peaked in 2025, when 198 babies were given it (191 boys, #1,119 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 192 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 191 | #1,119 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 192 | #1,118 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 127 | #1,437 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 142 | #1,327 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 82 | #1,880 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,106 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 48 | #2,678 | 0.03 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,081 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,871 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 37 | #3,142 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,430 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,922 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 30 | #3,593 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 24 | #4,173 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 27 | #3,864 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 41 | #2,928 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 35 | #3,260 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 41 | #2,902 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,949 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 25 | #3,777 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,526 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,545 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,516 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,054 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 14 | #5,211 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,260 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,069 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 9 | #6,416 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,308 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,486 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,394 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #9,611 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,458 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Makoa a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makoa has been given almost only to boys: 7 girls in 34 years of records.
Girls and boys named Makoa: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makoa, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,487 Americans ever recorded as Makoa. The median Makoa alive today is 6 years old; half are between 2 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 664 people named Makoa (11 women and girls, 653 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 689 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 34 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 377 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,060 |
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 Makoa born?
The states with the most babies named Makoa are California, Texas and Florida, with 46% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 28 | #856 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,239 | 0.3× |
| Florida | 14 | #990 | 0.4× |
| Hawaii | 12 | #75 | 63.7× |
| Colorado | 8 | #657 | 0.3× |
| Washington | 7 | #859 | 1.3× |
| Tennessee | 7 | #897 | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,227 | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 6 | #573 | 1.1× |
| Arizona | 6 | #898 | 0.5× |
Where Makoa is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makoa is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1992 it was given 63.7 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 boys’ 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 Makoa 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 18,277 babies since 1880, Makoa is the third most given (8.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 198 of their 1,021 babies (19%), the second 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 Makoa
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 Makoa and names like it
- Compare Makoa and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMakoa peaked in 2025.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makoa since 1910.
- Hawaiian namesWiktionary’s origin for Makoa: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Makoa.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makoa alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.