Meaning not yet researched.
Makenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 495 in 2025. Its best rank was #201 in 2010.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #201 in 2010; #593 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makenna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#593 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2010, at #201.
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Makenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 495 girls in 2025. Peak: #201 in 2010 · most girls in one year: 1,619 (2005).
In 2025, 495 US girls were named Makenna, making it the 593rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 70 places from #523 in 2024. That is 94 fewer than the 589 girls named Makenna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #201, reached in 2010. The most girls given the name in a single year was 1,619, in 2005. For comparison, it was #289 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makenna in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 8 babies. In all, 33,749 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 14,032 babies named Makenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,966 US girls were named Makenna; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,025. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,247 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makenna ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #217 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Makena (6,652 babies since 1880) and Mackenna (3,668 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Makana, Makennah and Makynna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Makana (860), Makennah (704), Makynna (461), Makinna (350), Makenah (290), Mackena (109), Makina (90), Makyna (66), Makeena (48), Mackennah (19), Mahkenna (12), Makanna (5), and more.
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 Makenna 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 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 11 | #217 | #176 |
| Indiana | 23 | #313 | #167 |
| Michigan | 25 | #360 | #167 |
| Ohio | 31 | #366 | #171 |
| Pennsylvania | 29 | #379 | #254 |
| Alabama | 12 | #419 | #239 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #424 | #258 |
| Minnesota | 12 | #449 | #189 |
| Idaho | 5 | #456 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #462 | #428 |
| Iowa | 7 | #472 | #180 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #473 | #194 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #482 | #193 |
| Tennessee | 15 | #522 | #279 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #527 | #314 |
| Colorado | 10 | #569 | #251 |
| Missouri | 10 | #580 | #175 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #596 | #332 |
| Georgia | 18 | #599 | #332 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #628 | #318 |
| Maryland | 8 | #631 | #351 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #664 | #390 |
| Florida | 25 | #685 | #353 |
| New York | 24 | #691 | #404 |
| Oregon | 5 | #698 | #193 |
| Virginia | 10 | #738 | #349 |
| California | 39 | #784 | #449 |
| Texas | 36 | #833 | #499 |
| Illinois | 9 | #977 | #381 |
| Arizona | 6 | #993 | #354 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,002 | #270 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,116 | #568 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 495 | #593 | — | — |
| 2024 | 589 | #523 | — | — |
| 2023 | 649 | #474 | — | — |
| 2022 | 788 | #398 | — | — |
| 2021 | 844 | #367 | — | — |
| 2020 | 775 | #402 | — | — |
| 2019 | 833 | #376 | — | — |
| 2018 | 989 | #329 | — | — |
| 2017 | 979 | #333 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,025 | #318 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,117 | #289 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,149 | #285 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,293 | #248 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,386 | #229 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,451 | #219 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,543 | #201 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,370 | #243 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,474 | #230 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,459 | #244 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,492 | #232 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,619 | #213 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,464 | #227 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,451 | #225 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,323 | #242 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,217 | #263 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,163 | #277 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,114 | #280 | — | — |
| 1998 | 627 | #422 | — | — |
| 1997 | 600 | #429 | — | — |
| 1996 | 445 | #531 | 8 | #6,886 |
| 1995 | 312 | #683 | — | — |
| 1994 | 212 | #904 | — | — |
| 1993 | 130 | #1,306 | — | — |
| 1992 | 107 | #1,483 | — | — |
| 1991 | 80 | #1,794 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,136 | — | — |
| 1988 | 27 | #3,543 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,212 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,349 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,219 | — | — |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,725 | — | — |
| 1983 | 10 | #6,500 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,907 | — | — |
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).