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Makoto

#7,486 in 2025Boys' name

Sincerity

Makoto has been given to 553 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #7,486 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Makoto, 2025

1 in 301,000

Makoto over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makoto: meaning, origin, and history

Sincerity

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makoto means

Makoto means “sincerity”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 553 boys were recorded with the name Makoto between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1922; its best national rank was #2,001 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #8,485 in 2020 to #7,486 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,178 in 2015 to #7,486 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 Makoto?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 155,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,486
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makoto 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makoto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makotos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makoto was born before 1994 — so the typical Makoto is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
410
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.3% of all recorded uses (107).

Is Makoto 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
+1,242
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+999
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,308
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
64.7%
Peak was 1922 (17)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,001
1922

Spellings of Makoto

Makoto is not the most common spelling — Dakota is, with 93.5% against Makoto's 0.56%.

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 Makoto is used

Across 1910–2025, Makoto was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 140,617 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

012 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 8,333
  2. 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. Makoto has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Makoto around the world

Where Makoto 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
    2019–2019
    #3,937
    in 2019
  • France
    2006–2006
    #5,225
    in 2006
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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

Makoto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,486
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 999
Best rank ever
#2,001
1922
Peak year
1922
17 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
553
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Makoto

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

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Sibling names for Makoto

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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