Makenah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Makenah

The Social Security Administration has registered 290 babies named Makenah between 1996 and 2018, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Makenah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 29 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Makenah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 164 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Makenah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Makenah in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Makenah 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 290 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.