Makynna
Makynna was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,285 among girls’ names; 461 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makynna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makynna?
#14,285 among girls’ names, 2025
Makynna fell from #7,478 in 2015 to #14,285 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 3.7 per million.
45 babies in 2007, the peak
Makynna peaked in 2007, when 45 girls were given it, #3,638 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,285 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,596 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,820 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,778 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,623 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,499 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,105 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,577 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,473 | 9.0 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,478 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,574 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,912 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,254 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,773 | 17.1 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,364 | 19.1 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,482 | 14.2 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,384 | 14.3 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,638 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,965 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,164 | 18.4 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,679 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,300 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,617 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,637 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,615 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,004 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,601 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,084 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,145 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makynna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makynna 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 Makynna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makynna, and how old are they?
An estimated 457 Americans named Makynna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 13 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 375 people named Makynna (373 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 429 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 45,740 babies since 1880, Makynna is the fifth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 618 babies (<1%), the fourth 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 Makynna
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 Makynna and names like it
- Compare Makynna and MakennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakynna peaked in 2007.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makynna since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Makynna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makynna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.