Makoto
Makoto reached its high-water mark in 1922 at number 1,952, and has been recorded 553 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 400 Makotos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Makoto
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 553
- Estimated living today
- 400
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 1922
- Best rank
- 1,952nd
- Rank in 2025
- 7,194th
- First recorded
- 1915
How old the living Makotos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 553 babies given the name since 1915, about 400 are alive — 72 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Makotos
- Makoto Hasebe (born 1984)Japanese association football player
- Makoto Kobayashi (born 1944)Japanese theoretical physicist
- Makoto Shinkai (born 1973)Japanese anime director
- Makoto Tanaka (born 1975)Japanese association football player and manager
- SaitÅ Makoto (1858–1936)Prime Minister of Japan
- Makoto Teguramori (born 1967)Japanese association football player and manager
- Makoto Sugiyama (born 1960)Japanese association football player
- Makoto Yonekura (born 1970)Japanese association football player
People named Makoto with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Makoto is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Makoto is most concentrated in Hawaii (176.4×), California (4.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1922
The most popular boys’ names the year Makoto peaked:
Makoto elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Makoto | 5 | 5,225th |
| England and Wales boys | Makoto | 4 | 3,937th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Makoto among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Makoto | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Makoto against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.