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The first name 
Makaela

Makaela is a female first name.

When two girls called Makaela meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Makaela is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Makaela. In the SmartGenius ranking, Makaela is #3,398 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Makaela.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Makaela

Makaela -
special from day one

In fact, the name Makaela hardly fits the trend of first names for girls. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Makaela wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1998, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 1,171, 145 parents chose it in 1998 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Makaela, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Makaela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Makaela - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Makaela a few times. Among all newborn girls, it ranked 5,448, for a total of 19 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Makaela seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Makaela -
at home in half of America

The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Makaela are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Makaela in 23 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia or Illinois. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Makaela live in California – here, one in 44,252 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 131,546 will turn around if you call her first name Makaela.

Makaela has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With seven letters, the name Makaela has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

Other names with 
M, a, k, a, e, l and a

If you take all the letters in the name Makaela – M, a, k, a, e, l and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Makalea or Malaeka.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Makaela

If your name is Makaela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Makaela

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Makaela, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Koala

Apple

Elephant

Lion

Apple

This is how the name Makaela is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Makaela in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Makaela

Makaela

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Makaela

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Makaela is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
K
A
E
L
A

Have you ever waved the name Makaela

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
A
K
A
E
L
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Makaela sounds like this: