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Makeda

#7,363 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly greatness

Makeda has been given to 1,767 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #7,363 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1985, with 85 recorded.

Babies named Makeda, 2025

1 in 221,000

Makeda over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makeda: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly greatness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makeda means

Makeda may mean “greatness”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,767 girls were recorded with the name Makeda between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 85 in 1985; its best national rank was #1,467 in 1985.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,771 in 2020 to #7,363 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,062 in 2015 to #7,363 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.

How common is Makeda?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,363
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makeda 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 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makeda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makedas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makeda was born before 1995 — so the typical Makeda is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,767
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (432).

Is Makeda 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
−1,466
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,592
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,301
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.56×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
17.6%
Peak was 1985 (85)
Years since peak
40
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,467
1985

Spellings of Makeda

Makeda is not the most common spelling — Makenna is, with 34.5% against Makeda's 1.8%.

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 Makeda is used

Across 1910–2025, Makeda was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 148,869 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 in —
  8. 8Washington1 in —

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

Makeda around the world

Where Makeda 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
    1996–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • France
    1999–2023
    #5,009
    in 2023
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Makeda by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,363
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,592
Best rank ever
#1,467
1985
Peak year
1985
85 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,767
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Makeda

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

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Sibling names for Makeda

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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