Makana

girls:

320 births since 1994

#5396 (6th percentile)

boys:

481 births since 1986

#4105 (10th percentile)

overall:

801 births since 1986

#6938 (10th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makana".

1986 2023 19862023

Key Statistics

Total Births
320
Peak Births
19
Peak Year
2003
First Recorded
1994
Peak Percentile
1.5%
Current Percentile
1.0%
Peak Rank
#843
Current Rank
#938
Female statistics
Total Births
481
Peak Births
29
Peak Year
2016
First Recorded
1986
Peak Percentile
2.6%
Current Percentile
1.3%
Peak Rank
#705
Current Rank
#899
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Makana

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Makana. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 62.2% confident that Makana is pronounced as muh-KAH-nuh. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KA-nuh, at 13.5% confidence.

muh-KAH-nuh (3 syllables)
62.2% confidence
M AH0 K AA1 N AH0
muh-KA-nuh (3 syllables)
13.5% confidence
M AH0 K AE1 N AH0
mah-KAH-nuh (3 syllables)
13.5% confidence
M AA0 K AA1 N AH0
muh-KUH-nuh (3 syllables)
10.8% confidence
M AH0 K AH1 N AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Makana. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Makana, please vote using the thumbs up button.

mih-KEH-nuh (3 syllables)
11 names 45.4k births
M IH0 K EH1 N AH0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 K AA1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.