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Maka

Girls' name

Eye; beloved one

Maka has been given to 59 babies in the U.S. since 2001. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2023, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Maka, 2023

1 in 331,000

Maka over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maka: meaning, origin, and history

Eye; beloved one

Hawaiian

What Maka means

Maka means “eye; beloved one”, associated with maka.

Origin, language, and formation

Maka is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Maka is pronounced /ˈma.ka/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 59 girls were recorded with the name Maka between 2001 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2023; its best national rank was #10,063 in 2023.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maka?

Maka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 331,000
10 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 160,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
229,764 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,764 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maka was born before 2016 — so the typical Maka is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
59
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Maka rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2023 (10)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,063
2023

Spellings of Maka

Maka is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 50.7% against Maka's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Maka around the world

Where Maka ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2018–2024
    #5,591
    in 2024

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maka by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,063
2023
Peak year
2023
10 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
59
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maka

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Maka

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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