first name
MAKENNA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 27,550 people named Makenna, 82.9% reported their origin as White, 6.7% as two or more races and 5.6% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Makenna peaked in 2005, when 1,619 babies got the name.
At least 33,749 babies have been given the name since 1982. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Makenna by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #478. The largest share of babies named Makenna, 61.5%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Makenna is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Makenna has been most common in Idaho (2.6×), Nevada (2.6×), and Utah (2.6×), and least common in New Mexico (0.3×).
32,655 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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