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Makaio

#2,137 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Matthew

Makaio has been given to 1,338 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #2,137 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 124 recorded.

Babies named Makaio, 2025

1 in 48,800

Makaio over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makaio: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Matthew

the Bible

What Makaio means

Makaio is a form of Matthew.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Makaio → Matthew → Matthaeus. The family’s meaning is “gift of YHWH (the Lord)”, recorded in Latin with the source elements Mattiṯyāhū.

Origin, language, and formation

Makaio is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Matthew and Mataio.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Makaio is pronounced /maˈkai̯.o/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,338 boys were recorded with the name Makaio between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 124 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,465 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,201 in 2020 to #2,137 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,893 in 2015 to #2,137 in 2025.

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 Makaio?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 48,800
68 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 25,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,137
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
33,794 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makaio sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 33,794 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makaio. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makaios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makaio was born before 2017 — so the typical Makaio is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,338
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (547).

Is Makaio 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
−672
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+64
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+756
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.66×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
54.8%
Peak was 2024 (124)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,465
2024

Spellings of Makaio

Makaio is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 78.7% against Makaio's 0.70%.

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.

Where Makaio is used

Across 2016–2025, Makaio was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 658 boys, against 1 in 25,911 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

1152 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 658
  2. 2California1 in 12,500
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Oregon1 in 33,333
  5. 5Texas1 in 33,333
  6. 6Washington1 in 33,333
  7. 7Colorado1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Makaio around the world

Where Makaio 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.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2006–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2004–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Makaio by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,137
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 64
Best rank ever
#1,465
2024
Peak year
2024
124 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,338
Count in 2025
68

Names similar to Makaio

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

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Sibling names for Makaio

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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