Makéba
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Makéba is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GYGuyana1 in 44K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 516K
- FRFrance≈1 in 31M
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 19 (measured from records)
- 1 in 44K (inferred from the name graph)
645 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Makeba in US United States, FR France.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 13 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makéba counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 645 | 1 in 516K | 621 | Makeba | 17 |
| GY Guyana | 17 | 1 in 44K | 17 | — | — |
| FR France | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 31M | — | Makeba | 19 |
| GD Grenada | — | — | 5 | — | — |
| DM Dominica | — | — | 4 | — | — |
645 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- Is Makéba a male or female name?
- Makéba is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Makéba have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 645 people named Makéba, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled makeba.
- Where is Makéba most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Makéba is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 44 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Makéba?
- In the United States, the national register counted 645 people named Makéba in 2020, about 1 in 516 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Makéba?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mak%C3%A9baThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Makéba”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.