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Makala

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Makala has been given to 3,403 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1998, with 277 recorded.

Babies named Makala, 2022

1 in 677,000

Makala over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makala: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makala means

Makala is a given name.

The naming story behind Makala

Wikidata records Makala as a given name. The entity identifier is Q134343011, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,398 girls were recorded with the name Makala between 1971 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 277 in 1998; its best national rank was #777 in 1998.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Makala between 2004 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2004; its best national rank was #12,500 in 2004.

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.

How common is Makala?

Makala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makala 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makala was born before 2000 — so the typical Makala is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
43.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
67.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,398
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (1,481).

Is Makala 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (277)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#777
1998

Spellings of Makala

Makala is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 29.5% against Makala's 0.93%.

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 Makala is used

Across 1910–2025, Makala was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 69,329 across all states with data. It was least common in Oregon (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 25,000
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 33,333
  4. 4Alabama1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Kentucky1 in 50,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 50,000
  8. 8Missouri1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Makala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Makala around the world

Where Makala 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
    1996–2004
    #3,197
    in 2004
  • Scotland
    2005–2005
    #687
    in 2005
  • Canada
    1995–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1981–2007
    #803
    in 2007

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

Makala 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
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Best rank ever
#777
1998
Peak year
1998
277 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
3,398
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,500
2004
Peak year
2004
5 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Makala

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

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Names with a curve like Makala

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makala, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DestanyLexisShianneDejahChyanneMicaylaElexisShiannOdalisOdalysDaijaSydnie

Sibling names for Makala

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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