Mckenna
Mckenna was given to 758 girls in 2025, #410 among girls’ names; 44,491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 44,000 Americans named Mckenna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckenna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mckenna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mckenna is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.”
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McKinney.
/məˈkɛnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mckenna?
#410 among girls’ names, 2025
Mckenna fell from #249 in 2015 to #410 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.73 to 0.47 per 1,000.
1,804 babies in 2002, the peak
Mckenna peaked in 2002, when 1,804 babies were given it (1,795 girls, #177 among girls’ names). The 758 births of 2025 are 42% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 758 | #410 | 0.47 |
| 2024 | 829 | #376 | 0.51 |
| 2023 | 941 | #328 | 0.59 |
| 2022 | 1,085 | #291 | 0.66 |
| 2021 | 1,024 | #318 | 0.62 |
| 2020 | 1,135 | #280 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,153 | #289 | 0.69 |
| 2018 | 1,262 | #258 | 0.74 |
| 2017 | 1,255 | #254 | 0.73 |
| 2016 | 1,254 | #251 | 0.71 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,305 | #249 | 0.73 |
| 2014 | 1,405 | #234 | 0.79 |
| 2013 | 1,471 | #216 | 0.84 |
| 2012 | 1,405 | #227 | 0.80 |
| 2011 | 1,333 | #239 | 0.76 |
| 2010 | 1,378 | #228 | 0.78 |
| 2009 | 1,505 | #216 | 0.82 |
| 2008 | 1,522 | #221 | 0.80 |
| 2007 | 1,554 | #227 | 0.81 |
| 2006 | 1,570 | #217 | 0.83 |
| 2005 | 1,657 | #211 | 0.90 |
| 2004 | 1,656 | #202 | 0.90 |
| 2003 | 1,695 | #193 | 0.93 |
| 2002 | 1,795 | #177 | 1.0 |
| 2001 | 1,693 | #194 | 0.94 |
| 2000 | 1,704 | #188 | 0.94 |
| 1999 | 1,571 | #198 | 0.89 |
| 1998 | 1,439 | #212 | 0.81 |
| 1997 | 1,330 | #226 | 0.76 |
| 1996 | 1,230 | #230 | 0.70 |
| 1995 | 1,066 | #259 | 0.61 |
| 1994 | 662 | #384 | 0.37 |
| 1993 | 376 | #611 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 390 | #588 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 209 | #918 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,191 | 0.08 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,556 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,448 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,086 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,795 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,584 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,548 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,756 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,137 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,585 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,754 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,634 | under 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,261 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,102 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckenna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mckenna has been given almost only to girls: 183 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mckenna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckenna, and how old are they?
44,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 44,491 Americans ever recorded as Mckenna. The median Mckenna alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 37,053 people named Mckenna (36,825 women and girls, 228 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 38,660 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 27 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 24,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 14,800 |
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 Mckenna born?
The states with the most babies named Mckenna are Texas, New York and Florida, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 54 | #589 | 0.7× |
| New York | 47 | #364 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 46 | #412 | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 42 | #267 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #284 | 1.2× |
| New Jersey | 37 | #225 | 0.6× |
| California | 34 | #872 | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 33 | #272 | 1.3× |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #186 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 28 | #375 | 0.9× |
Where Mckenna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mckenna is most over-represented in Utah: since 1972 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 Mckenna 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 83,304 babies since 1880, Mckenna is the most given (53% of them). In 2025 it was given to 758 of their 1,302 babies (58%), 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 Mckenna
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 Mckenna and names like it
- Compare Mckenna and MakennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMckenna peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mckenna since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Mckenna: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Mckenna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mckenna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.