Makenah
Makenah was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 290 Americans have been recorded with it between 1996 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makenah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makenah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,212, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 2008, the peak
Makenah peaked in 2008, when 29 girls were given it, #5,092 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,212 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,336 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,567 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,933 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,921 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,990 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,662 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,305 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 22 | #6,097 | 12.4 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,559 | 9.3 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 29 | #5,092 | 15.3 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,829 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,091 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,539 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,673 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,443 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,293 | 10.0 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,532 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,282 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,517 | 7.3 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,823 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makenah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makenah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 21 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makenah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makenah, and how old are they?
An estimated 287 Americans named Makenah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 15 and 22. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 263 people named Makenah (261 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Makenah?
Makenah is a less common spelling of Makenna: SSA has recorded 290 Makenah and 33,749 Makenna since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 41,660 babies since 1880, Makenah is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 563 babies recorded by SSA was a Makenah (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Makenah
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Makenah and names like it
- Compare Makenah and MakennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakenah peaked in 2008.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makenah since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Makenah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makenah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.