Makana — #5523 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Makana

The Social Security Administration has registered 498 babies named Makana between 1986 and 2024, spanning 39 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Makana currently holds the #5523 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Makana is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 336 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Makana performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Makana shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Hawaii, which accounts for 275 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Nevada. In total, SSA state-level files list Makana in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Makana in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 498 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.