Mackena
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mackena has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 1996. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2009, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Mackena, 2017
1 in 511,000
Mackena over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mackena?
Mackena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 511,000
- 7 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 247,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 354,210 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mackena sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 354,210 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mackena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mackenas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mackena was born before 2008 — so the typical Mackena is around 17 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 56.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 109
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (62).
Is Mackena rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2009 (11)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 19.6% average annual change
Spellings of Mackena
Mackena is not the most common spelling — Mckenna is, with 39.5% against Mackena's 0.10%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Mackena around the world
Where Mackena ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- Canada2002–2002#2,580in 2002
Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Mackena by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mackena
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mackena
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.