girls:
3.6k births since 1986
#2898 (49th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 1995
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1986
#4583 (41st percentile)
The name Mackenna is the #4,583 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,563 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 40.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 40.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,898 (49.3% percentile) for all time with 3,555 births since 1986. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 1995.
Mackenna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for girls and 1995 for boys).
The name Mackenna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mackenna reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 18.5% percentile (ranked #802) with 90 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 90 births per million (ranked 18.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2010, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mackenna ranks #880 for girls (7.1% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 45.6% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mackenna reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #797) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mackenna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mackenna is pronounced as muh-KEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables.
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