Makala is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
There’s a good chance that a girl named Makala in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Makala in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Makala by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Makala ranks at #6,425. That means there are 6,424 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Makala.
Makala is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Makala - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 731 in 1998. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Makala really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Makala was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
5 babies were named Makala in 2022 - that's 1 in 29,646,380 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Makala ranked 13,280 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Makala, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 32 states are home to women and girls named Makala. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few women and girls named Makala living in one state or another. If your name is Makala and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In North Carolina, which has the most people named Makala relative to the population, you still have to ask 25,614 women and girls their names before you hear Makala as an answer just once.
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 six letters, the name Makala is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
If your name is Makala 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 Makala, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Koala
Apple
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Makala
Makala
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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
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A
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. Makala sounds like this:
