Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mako” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mako” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mako” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mako” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mako” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mako” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mako” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mako” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1977 5 0.000001574 5 -100%
1996 5 0.000001371 5 100%
2006 6 0.000001517 6 100%
2008 11 0.000002799 6 5 9%
2009 10 0.000002618 5 5 0%
2010 5 0.000001353 5 100%
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 7 0.000001914 7 -100%
2013 12 0.000003292 12 -100%
2014 12 0.000003238 5 7 -17%
2015 19 0.000005134 6 13 -37%
2016 22 0.000005997 8 14 -27%
2017 13 0.000003635 13 -100%
2018 10 0.000002844 10 -100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 -100%
2020 22 0.000006586 22 -100%
2021 24 0.000007084 24 -100%
2022 34 0.00001005 6 28 -65%
2023 32 0.000009664 5 27 -69%
2024 28 0.000008412 8 20 -43%

Explore other names

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