Makenna
Makenna was given to 495 girls in 2025, #593 among girls’ names; 33,749 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 33,400 Americans named Makenna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 11 and 23.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makenna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makenna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Makenna is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
A variant of McKenna invented in the 1980s.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makenna?
#593 among girls’ names, 2025
Makenna fell from #289 in 2015 to #593 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.63 to 0.31 per 1,000.
1,619 babies in 2005, the peak
Makenna peaked in 2005, when 1,619 girls were given it, #213 among girls’ names. The 495 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 495 | #593 | 0.31 |
| 2024 | 589 | #523 | 0.36 |
| 2023 | 649 | #474 | 0.40 |
| 2022 | 788 | #398 | 0.48 |
| 2021 | 844 | #367 | 0.51 |
| 2020 | 775 | #402 | 0.48 |
| 2019 | 833 | #376 | 0.50 |
| 2018 | 989 | #329 | 0.58 |
| 2017 | 979 | #333 | 0.57 |
| 2016 | 1,025 | #318 | 0.58 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,117 | #289 | 0.63 |
| 2014 | 1,149 | #285 | 0.64 |
| 2013 | 1,293 | #248 | 0.74 |
| 2012 | 1,386 | #229 | 0.79 |
| 2011 | 1,451 | #219 | 0.82 |
| 2010 | 1,543 | #201 | 0.87 |
| 2009 | 1,370 | #243 | 0.75 |
| 2008 | 1,474 | #230 | 0.78 |
| 2007 | 1,459 | #244 | 0.76 |
| 2006 | 1,492 | #232 | 0.78 |
| 2005 | 1,619 | #213 | 0.88 |
| 2004 | 1,464 | #227 | 0.80 |
| 2003 | 1,451 | #225 | 0.79 |
| 2002 | 1,323 | #242 | 0.74 |
| 2001 | 1,217 | #263 | 0.68 |
| 2000 | 1,163 | #277 | 0.64 |
| 1999 | 1,114 | #280 | 0.63 |
| 1998 | 627 | #422 | 0.35 |
| 1997 | 600 | #429 | 0.34 |
| 1996 | 445 | #531 | 0.25 |
| 1995 | 312 | #683 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 212 | #903 | 0.12 |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,304 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,480 | 0.06 |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,788 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,988 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,130 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,538 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,209 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,346 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,217 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,721 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,498 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,905 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makenna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makenna has been given almost only to girls: 8 boys in 44 years of records.
Girls and boys named Makenna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makenna, and how old are they?
33,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 33,749 Americans ever recorded as Makenna. The median Makenna alive today is 17 years old; half are between 11 and 23.
The 2020 Census counted 27,550 people named Makenna (27,482 women and girls, 68 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 29,564 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,440 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 20,500 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 11,500 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Makenna born?
The states with the most babies named Makenna are California, Texas and Ohio, with 23% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 39 | #784 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 36 | #833 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 31 | #366 | 1.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #379 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 25 | #360 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 25 | #685 | 0.6× |
| New York | 24 | #691 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 23 | #313 | 1.5× |
| Georgia | 18 | #599 | 0.7× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #628 | 0.8× |
Where Makenna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Makenna is most over-represented in Nebraska: since 1982 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Makenna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,983 babies since 1880, Makenna is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 495 of their 618 babies (80%), again the most given.
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 Makenna
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 Makenna and names like it
- Compare Makenna and MakenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakenna peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makenna since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Makenna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Makenna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makenna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.