Makenna

What Makenna means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Makenna yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2005, with 1,619 babies; 495 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Makenna?

US: Falling: down from #289 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2005, when 1,619 girls got the name (#213 that year). First in the US records in 1982.

How common

• About 1 in 3,247 baby girls in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NE (1.55 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.82 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.79 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Makenna is #593 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Makenna were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Makena63 US
• Mackenna49 US
• Mikenna9 US
• Makynna6 US
• Makana6 US
• Makennah5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Makenna

Girls

• Kamryn#556Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Delaney#242“from the alder grove”^*
• Rylie#476Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #476 vs #1,454 in 2025
• Camryn#476Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*
• Payton#440“enclosure; settlement, town”^*
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*

For a brother

• Logan#53“little hollow”^*
• Rohan#810“to ascend”^*
• Quinn#466“descendant of Chief”^*
• Brayden#229Variant of Braden, meaning “descendant of Bradán”^*
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records
• Kameron#466Variant of Cameron, meaning “crooked, bent + nose”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Makenna’s. Rank is US 2025.