Makaveli
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mah-kuh-VEL-ee
- Origin
- Italian
- US rank, 2025
- #12,003 for boys
Makaveli is a boys' name of Italian origin. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).
What does Makaveli mean?
Italian: respelling of the surname Machiavelli
Tupac Shakur adopted Makaveli, after the Italian political thinker Niccolò Machiavelli, as his alias for a 1996 album.
Is Makaveli a girl's or a boy's name?
Makaveli is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makaveli in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 12,003rd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Makaveli, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2024, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 1997.
2025 had fewer boys named Makaveli than any year since 2017.
Half of all the boys named Makaveli in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Makaveli in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #12,003 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,464 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,250 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,150 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #12,180 |
| 2015 | 5 | #12,080 |
| 2014 | 8 | #8,775 |
| 2013 | 6 | #10,722 |
| 2012 | 5 | #12,267 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
| 2008 | 5 | #12,546 |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,108 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 5 | #10,886 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,282 |
Names like Makaveli
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Armani, Bodhi, Akari, Malachi, Jakari, Kamari, Amari, Makai, Avi, Santi, Aarav, Amiri
More Italian names
Aria, Sienna, Enzo, Bella, Kiara, Gemma, Ariyah, Milani, Ariya, Bianca, Siena, Ariah, Capri, Kara, Emiliana, Jemma
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Makaveli: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makaveli, updated 20 October 2026.