Meaning not yet researched.
Makena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 63 in 2025. Its best rank was #718 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #718 in 2005; #2,740 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,740 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #718.
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Makena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 63 girls in 2025. Peak: #718 in 2005 · most girls in one year: 381 (2005).
In 2025, 63 US girls were named Makena, making it the 2,740th most common girls’ name of the year, down 715 places from #2,025 in 2024. That is 34 fewer than the 97 girls named Makena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #718, reached in 2005. That year also had the most girls given the name: 381. For comparison, it was #1,129 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makena in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1984 with 7 babies. In all, 6,652 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 2,963 babies named Makena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,376 US girls were named Makena; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 224. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,512 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makena ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #128 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Makenna (33,749 babies since 1880) and Mackenna (3,668 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Makena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 7 | #128 | #101 |
| California | 17 | #1,393 | #733 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 63 | #2,740 | — | — |
| 2024 | 97 | #2,025 | — | — |
| 2023 | 115 | #1,778 | — | — |
| 2022 | 108 | #1,881 | — | — |
| 2021 | 115 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 2020 | 119 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2019 | 150 | #1,471 | — | — |
| 2018 | 178 | #1,287 | — | — |
| 2017 | 207 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 2016 | 224 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 2015 | 226 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2014 | 201 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 2013 | 252 | #995 | — | — |
| 2012 | 255 | #990 | — | — |
| 2011 | 236 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2010 | 294 | #899 | 5 | #13,522 |
| 2009 | 281 | #949 | — | — |
| 2008 | 323 | #863 | 5 | #13,829 |
| 2007 | 303 | #908 | — | — |
| 2006 | 341 | #804 | 9 | #8,487 |
| 2005 | 381 | #718 | — | — |
| 2004 | 297 | #831 | 6 | #10,834 |
| 2003 | 298 | #824 | 7 | #9,264 |
| 2002 | 306 | #774 | 8 | #8,162 |
| 2001 | 197 | #1,081 | — | — |
| 2000 | 201 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1999 | 165 | #1,180 | 5 | #10,963 |
| 1998 | 140 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1997 | 123 | #1,387 | 7 | #7,803 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,762 | 6 | #8,586 |
| 1995 | 68 | #2,018 | 15 | #4,190 |
| 1994 | 60 | #2,226 | 6 | #8,399 |
| 1993 | 37 | #3,138 | — | — |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,854 | 5 | #9,309 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,459 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,711 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,263 | — | — |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,778 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,676 | — | — |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,184 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,885 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,724 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).