Meaning not yet researched.
Mckenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 758 in 2025. Its best rank was #177 in 2002.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #177 in 2002; #410 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mckenna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#410 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2002, at #177.
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Mckenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 758 girls in 2025. Peak: #177 in 2002 · most girls in one year: 1,795 (2002).
In 2025, 758 US girls were named Mckenna, making it the 410th most common girls’ name of the year, down 34 places from #376 in 2024. That is 71 fewer than the 829 girls named Mckenna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #177, reached in 2002. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,795. For comparison, it was #249 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mckenna in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 44,491 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 16,398 babies named Mckenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,696 US girls were named Mckenna; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 1,262. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,120 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mckenna ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #131 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Mckennah, Mckena and Mckinna are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Ken, Kenna and Meaka.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mckennah (528), Mckena (411), Mckinna (318), Mckynna (152), Mckenah (53), Mkenna (25), Mckinnah (11), Mckeena (5).
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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 15 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 10 | #131 | — |
| Massachusetts | 30 | #186 | #197 |
| Delaware | 5 | #206 | #223 |
| South Dakota | 6 | #221 | #210 |
| New Jersey | 37 | #225 | #260 |
| North Dakota | 5 | #234 | #105 |
| South Carolina | 20 | #258 | #181 |
| Ohio | 42 | #267 | #205 |
| Michigan | 33 | #272 | #212 |
| Pennsylvania | 39 | #284 | #141 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #289 | #304 |
| Mississippi | 10 | #290 | #322 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #335 | #518 |
| Minnesota | 17 | #336 | #113 |
| West Virginia | 5 | #351 | #164 |
| Kentucky | 13 | #357 | #286 |
| New York | 47 | #364 | #216 |
| Colorado | 17 | #365 | #230 |
| Iowa | 9 | #373 | #191 |
| Illinois | 28 | #375 | #236 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #383 | #166 |
| Indiana | 18 | #390 | #200 |
| Oklahoma | 11 | #391 | #245 |
| North Carolina | 28 | #399 | #224 |
| Florida | 46 | #412 | #297 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #415 | #429 |
| Missouri | 14 | #436 | #226 |
| Georgia | 26 | #443 | #295 |
| Maryland | 12 | #452 | #303 |
| Virginia | 18 | #455 | #307 |
| Washington | 13 | #532 | #301 |
| Texas | 54 | #589 | #334 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #593 | #216 |
| Alabama | 7 | #692 | #208 |
| Arizona | 8 | #795 | #355 |
| California | 34 | #872 | #559 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 758 | #410 | — | — |
| 2024 | 829 | #376 | — | — |
| 2023 | 941 | #328 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,085 | #291 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,024 | #318 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,135 | #280 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,153 | #289 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,262 | #258 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,255 | #254 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,254 | #251 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,305 | #249 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,405 | #234 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,471 | #216 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,405 | #227 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,333 | #239 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,378 | #228 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,505 | #216 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,522 | #221 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,554 | #227 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,570 | #217 | 7 | #10,276 |
| 2005 | 1,657 | #211 | 5 | #12,694 |
| 2004 | 1,656 | #202 | 13 | #6,023 |
| 2003 | 1,695 | #193 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,795 | #177 | 9 | #7,439 |
| 2001 | 1,693 | #194 | 6 | #10,102 |
| 2000 | 1,704 | #188 | 7 | #8,803 |
| 1999 | 1,571 | #198 | 12 | #5,541 |
| 1998 | 1,439 | #212 | 12 | #5,356 |
| 1997 | 1,330 | #226 | 12 | #5,166 |
| 1996 | 1,230 | #230 | 20 | #3,500 |
| 1995 | 1,066 | #259 | 43 | #1,976 |
| 1994 | 662 | #384 | 27 | #2,734 |
| 1993 | 376 | #611 | 5 | #9,663 |
| 1992 | 390 | #588 | — | — |
| 1991 | 209 | #920 | 5 | #9,124 |
| 1990 | 143 | #1,195 | — | — |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,559 | — | — |
| 1988 | 95 | #1,449 | — | — |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1986 | 64 | #1,796 | — | — |
| 1985 | 76 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,757 | — | — |
| 1982 | 48 | #2,137 | — | — |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,756 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,636 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,821 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,263 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,104 | — | — |
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).