Mekai
#6,681 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mekai has been given to 563 babies in the U.S. since 1999. In 2025 it ranked #6,681 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 36 recorded.
Babies named Mekai, 2025
1 in 255,000
Mekai 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mekai?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,681
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mekai 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mekai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mekais were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mekai was born before 2012 — so the typical Mekai is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 40.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 563
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 40.9% of all recorded uses (230).
Is Mekai 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
- −2,032
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −174
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −112
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 36.1%
- Peak was 2005 (36)
- Years since peak
- 20
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Spellings of Mekai
Mekai is not the most common spelling — Kai is, with 50.3% against Mekai's 0.40%.
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 Mekai is used
Across 1910–2025, Mekai was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,949,567 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Maryland1 in —
- 3Pennsylvania1 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. Mekai has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mekai around the world
Where Mekai 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 & Wales2005–2011#3,830in 2011
- South Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mekai by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mekai
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mekai
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.