Mako
#3,063 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mako has been given to 352 babies in the U.S. since 1977. In 2025 it ranked #3,063 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 40 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 80% boys, 20% girls all-time.
Babies named Mako, 2025
1 in 82,900
Mako 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mako over time
In 2025, Mako went to 13% girls and 87% 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 Mako?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 82,900
- 40 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 42,700
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,063
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 57,449 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mako 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mako. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Makos were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mako was born before 2020 — so the typical Mako is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 57.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 281
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 57.3% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Mako 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
- +1,920
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,438
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +3,500
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 3.08×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (40)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.7% average annual change
Spellings of Mako
Mako is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 45.4% against Mako's <0.01%.
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 Mako is used
Across 1910–2025, Mako was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 443,198 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 100,000
- 2California1 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. Mako has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mako around the world
Where Mako 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 & Wales2008–2025#5,137in 2025
- Canada2020–2020#2,442in 2020
- South Australia2008–2008#361in 2008
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.
Mako by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mako
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mako
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.