Makennah
Makennah was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,373 among girls’ names; 704 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makennah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makennah?
#16,373 among girls’ names, 2025
Makennah fell from #4,272 in 2015 to #16,373 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.0 to 3.1 per million.
51 babies in 2007, the peak
Makennah peaked in 2007, when 51 girls were given it, #3,314 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,373 | 3.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,814 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,026 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 13 | #8,239 | 8.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,919 | 10.1 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,983 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,882 | 16.2 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,548 | 13.5 |
| 2015 | 34 | #4,272 | 19.0 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,853 | 16.2 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 23 | #5,760 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,347 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 35 | #4,206 | 19.9 |
| 2010 | 46 | #3,496 | 25.9 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,333 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 48 | #3,457 | 25.4 |
| 2007 | 51 | #3,314 | 26.5 |
| 2006 | 22 | #6,046 | 11.6 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,914 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,886 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,782 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,566 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,933 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 25 | #4,730 | 13.8 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,031 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,941 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,410 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,262 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,723 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makennah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makennah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makennah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makennah, and how old are they?
An estimated 698 Americans named Makennah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 12 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 569 people named Makennah (564 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Makennah?
Makennah is a less common spelling of Makenna: SSA has recorded 704 Makennah and 33,749 Makenna since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 45,874 babies since 1880, Makennah is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 618 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Makennah
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 Makennah and names like it
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- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makennah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makennah alive today were born 1997-2012.
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