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Makoa

#1,119 in 2025Boys' name

Brave

Makoa has been given to 1,487 babies in the U.S. since 1992. In 2025 it ranked #1,119 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 192 recorded.

Babies named Makoa, 2025

1 in 17,400

Makoa over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makoa: meaning, origin, and history

Brave

Hawaiian

What Makoa means

Makoa means “brave”, associated with makoa.

Origin, language, and formation

Makoa is used in Hawaiian. Its origins include Hawaiian.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Makoa is pronounced /maˈko.a/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,480 boys were recorded with the name Makoa between 1992 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 192 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,118 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,106 in 2020 to #1,119 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,060 in 2015 to #1,119 in 2025.

In the United States, 7 girls were recorded with the name Makoa between 2025 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2025; its best national rank was #12,684 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Makoa?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 17,400
191 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 8,940
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,119
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
12,032 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makoa sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 5003%

Put another way: gather 12,032 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makoa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makoas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makoa was born before 2020 — so the typical Makoa is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,480
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Choose a decade

2020s — 54.1% of all recorded uses (801).

Is Makoa 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
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+987
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,941
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
5.03×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
99.5%
Peak was 2024 (192)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,118
2024

Spellings of Makoa

Makoa is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 62.4% against Makoa's 0.27%.

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 Makoa is used

Across 2016–2025, Makoa was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 267 boys, against 1 in 17,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

1375 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 267
  2. 2Oregon1 in 8,333
  3. 3Washington1 in 8,333
  4. 4California1 in 11,111
  5. 5Utah1 in 11,111
  6. 6Nevada1 in 14,286
  7. 7Arizona1 in 20,000
  8. 8Florida1 in 25,000

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.

Makoa around the world

Where Makoa 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
    2023–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2020–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Makoa by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,119
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 987
Best rank ever
#1,118
2024
Peak year
2024
192 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,480
Count in 2025
191

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,684
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#12,684
2025
Peak year
2025
7 that year
First recorded
2025
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Makoa

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

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Sibling names for Makoa

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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