Makeda

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled ማክዳ in ET Ethiopia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Makeda is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish given name648 records spelled Makeda4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Colombia, Argentina, United Kingdom

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Makéda, Mãkeda

• French given name517 records spelled Makeda2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in France, United States

  Also written Makéda

• Russian surname39 records spelled Makeda9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Ukraine, Spain, United States, Russia

  Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

  Also written Македа, Maqueda, Macheda

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Makeda is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• beautiful armrest

  as a name·African Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 58 years between 1968–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Makeda Silverab. 1955JMCanadian writer
• Makeda Antoine-Cambridgeb. 1978TTTrinidadian ambassador
• Makeda Decletb. 2000USAmerican actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 136 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Makeda?

We estimate roughly 1.7 thousand people bear Makeda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.

In which country does Makeda have the most bearers?

Makeda is most frequently recorded in Eritrea, where it is most often spelled makeda.

How common is Makeda compared with other names?

In Eritrea, Makeda is the 6th most common given name of 73 given names recorded there.

Is Makeda a male or female name?

Makeda 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.

What does the name Makeda mean?

Recorded meaning: Amharic (Ethiopia): "beautiful armrest"; name of the Queen of Sheba