Makamae

Girls' name

Precious

Makamae has been given to 11 babies in the U.S. since 2006. 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 2006, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Makamae, 2014

1 in 741,000

Makamae over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makamae: meaning, origin, and history

Precious

Hawaiian

What Makamae means

Makamae means “precious”, associated with makamae.

Origin, language, and formation

Makamae is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Makamae is a modern formation.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Makamae is pronounced /ma.kaˈmae̯/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11 girls were recorded with the name Makamae between 2006 and 2014. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2006; its best national rank was #16,346 in 2006.

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 Makamae?

Makamae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2014: 1 in 741,000; 5 of 3,706,812 births
Among girls only: 1 in 357,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2014: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 513,874 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Makamae 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 2014 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 513,874 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makamae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makamaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makamae was born before 2006 — so the typical Makamae is around 19 today.

Median birth year: 2006; About 19 years old
Biggest decade: 2000s; 54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 11; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2000s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Makamae 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 2006 (6)
Years since peak: 19; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #16,346; 2006

Spellings of Makamae

Makamae is not the most common spelling — Makala is, with 66.8% against Makamae's 0.22%.

Makala66.8%3,398
Makaya20.1%1,021
Makalah12.9%656
Makamae0.22%11

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 Makamae is used

Across 1910–2025, Makamae was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 46,187 across all states with data.

22 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Hawaii1 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. Makamae has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Makamae 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: #16,346; 2006
Peak year: 2006; 6 that year
First recorded: 2006
Last recorded: 2014
All-time count: 11
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Makamae

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

Makaili Makayda Aylamae Makhari Makeeba Makieya Makkari Makaira Makhyia Makasha Makahia Makeira Maklynn Makylia Makiyha Makoa Makriyana Makirah Makaylea Makalla Makesia Maketta Makalea Makanna

Sibling names for Makamae

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

For a sister

Taniya Jazmyne Jayna Nyasia Tayla Lanie Estefany Sanaa

For a brother

Paulo Yair Lavon Tye Deshaun Oswaldo Nathen Britton

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