Entry № 6307 · Amharic origin

Makeda Makeda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ mah-KEH-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Amharic
Meaning
"Queen of Sheba (Ethiopian)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Ethiopian)

A name that means "queen of sheba (ethiopian)".

Makeda is the Ethiopian tradition's name for the Queen of Sheba — the biblical queen who visited King Solomon (1 Kings 10).

Makeda is widely used in Ethiopian and African American communities.

The Ethiopian Queen of Sheba.

The name in its native script.

ማክዳ
Transliteration
Mākǝdā
Pronunciation
/ məˈkeɪ.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Makeda stands.

Makeda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Makedas before her.

Real people
Queen Makeda
Ethiopian Queen of Sheba.
c. 10th c. BCE
In fiction
Makeda
Heroine of the Kebra Nagast.
Ethiopian sacred text

Names connected to Makeda.

The number behind Makeda.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Makeda reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.