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Makena

#2,740 in 2025Girls' name

Happy one

Makena has been given to 6,652 babies in the U.S. since 1984. In 2025 it ranked #2,740 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2005, with 381 recorded.

Babies named Makena, 2025

1 in 52,600

Makena over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Makena: meaning, origin, and history

Happy one

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Makena means

Makena means “happy one”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,568 girls were recorded with the name Makena between 1984 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 381 in 2005; its best national rank was #718 in 2005.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,713 in 2020 to #2,740 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,129 in 2015 to #2,740 in 2025.

In the United States, 84 boys were recorded with the name Makena between 1992 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 15 in 1995; its best national rank was #4,184 in 1995.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Makena?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 52,600
63 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 25,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#2,740
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
36,476 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Makena sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 36,476 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Makena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Makenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Makena was born before 2008 — so the typical Makena is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,568
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.6% of all recorded uses (2,928).

Is Makena 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
−715
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,027
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,611
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.28×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
16.5%
Peak was 2005 (381)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#718
2005

Spellings of Makena

Makena is not the most common spelling — Mckenna is, with 15.7% against Makena's 2.3%.

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.

Where Makena is used

Across 2016–2025, Makena was most concentrated in Hawaii — about 1 in 625 girls, against 1 in 12,864 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in 100,000).

1160 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Hawaii1 in 625
  2. 2Washington1 in 4,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,263
  4. 4Arizona1 in 10,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 12,500
  6. 6Colorado1 in 14,286
  7. 7Ohio1 in 14,286
  8. 8Oregon1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Makena around the world

Where Makena 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.

  • England & Wales
    2003–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    2014–2014
    #7,179
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Makena

People whose public names include Makena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Makena in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Makena. Linked forms have their own page here.

Makhena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Makena by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#2,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,027
Best rank ever
#718
2005
Peak year
2005
381 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,568
Count in 2025
63

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,184
1995
Peak year
1995
15 that year
First recorded
1992
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
84
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Makena

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Makena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Makena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

IrelandJakaylaJaylenMonserratIyannaJaylynNatalyaShreyaAryanaYulianaJaylinYamilet

Sibling names for Makena

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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