Mekai
Mekai was given to 13 boys in 2025, #6,681 among boys’ names; 563 Americans have been recorded with it since 1999 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mekai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mekai?
#6,681 among boys’ names, 2025
Mekai fell from #6,569 in 2015 to #6,681 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.8 to 7.6 per million.
36 babies in 2005, the peak
Mekai peaked in 2005, when 36 boys were given it, #2,934 among boys’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,681 | 7.6 |
| 2024 | 22 | #4,649 | 12.8 |
| 2023 | 28 | #3,955 | 16.4 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,055 | 15.5 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,183 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,507 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,766 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,459 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 18 | #5,227 | 9.7 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,399 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,569 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,480 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,136 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,966 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,608 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,628 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,690 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,793 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,967 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,979 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 36 | #2,934 | 18.0 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,127 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,243 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 15 | #5,051 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 18 | #4,398 | 9.3 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,799 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,486 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mekai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mekai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 27 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mekai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mekai, and how old are they?
An estimated 557 Americans named Mekai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 7 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 370 people named Mekai (32 women and girls, 338 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 434 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 15,618 babies since 1880, Mekai is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 248 babies (5.2%), the fourth 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 Mekai
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 Mekai and names like it
- Compare Mekai and MekhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMekai peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mekai since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Mekai.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mekai alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.