Makel
#11,496 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Makel has been given to 799 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #11,496 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 52 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Makel, 2025
1 in 553,000
Makel over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Makel over time
In 2025, Makel went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Makel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,496
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Makel sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Makel was born before 2008 — so the typical Makel is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 49.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 86.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 751
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 49.1% of all recorded uses (369).
Is Makel 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
- −3,938
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,622
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,503
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.32×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 11.5%
- Peak was 2005 (52)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.1% average annual change
Spellings of Makel
Makel is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 20.0% against Makel's 0.07%.
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 Makel is used
Across 1910–2025, Makel was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 608,780 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2Alabama1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Missouri1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8South Carolina1 in —
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. Makel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Makel around the world
Where Makel 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 & Wales2009–2009#4,527in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Makel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Makel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Makel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.