girls:
32.6k births since 1982
#774 (86th percentile)
boys:
8 births since 1996
#4578 (0th percentile)
overall:
32.6k births since 1982
#1401 (82nd percentile)
The name Makenna is the #1,401 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,649 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 81.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #774 (86.5% percentile) for all time with 32,641 births since 1982. For boys, it ranks #4,578 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 8 births since 1996.
Makenna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for girls and 1996 for boys).
The name Makenna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Makenna reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 79.3% percentile (ranked #196) with 787 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 798 births per million (ranked 77.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2012, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Makenna ranks #425 for girls (55.2% percentile) with 370 births per million, which is 46.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Makenna reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #775) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Makenna".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Makenna. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 84.2% confident that Makenna is pronounced as muh-KEH-nuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-keh-nuh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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