The name Makai has multiple different origins. It is a Hawaiian name, derived from the adverb ‘makai’ meaning ‘toward the sea’. It is also seen as an African American variant of Michael and Matthew.
Makai is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Makai isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Makai ranks 574. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Makai. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Makai.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With five letters, the name Makai is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. 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.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Makai 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Makai, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Makai
Makai
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
K
A
I
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.
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A
K
A
I
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. Makai sounds like this:
