Mackenna
Girl · muh-KEN-a · Irish
Mackenna is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “son of Cionaodh”. In 2025 it ranked 3,211th for girls in the US (49 babies).
What does Mackenna mean?
Irish: spelling of McKenna, from Irish Mac Cionaoith
“son of Cionaodh”
From the Irish surname McKenna, in Irish Mac Cionaoith, son of Cionaodh.
- Say it
- muh-KEN-a
Is Mackenna a girl's or a boy's name?
Mackenna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 49 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mackenna in the UK?
No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2002, with 6 girls.
Mackenna in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 | #5,885 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #5,734 |
| 2019 | 2 | #7,280 |
| 2018 | 1 | #7,536 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 4 | #4,888 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 1 | #7,717 |
| 2010 | 1 | #7,520 |
| 2009 | 1 | #7,377 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 1 | #6,685 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 4 | #3,916 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #2,691 |
| 2001 | 5 | #2,928 |
How popular is Mackenna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,211among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 49about 1 in 33,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 31% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 49 girls in the US were named Mackenna, making it the 3,211th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 2,416th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 187 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
2025 had fewer girls named Mackenna than any year since 1994.
Half of all the girls named Mackenna in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 112 girls in the US were given Mackenna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,566, up from #3,211 for this spelling alone.
- Makena 63
- Mackenna 49
Mackenna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 49 | #3,211 |
| 2024 | 55 | #2,976 |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,466 |
| 2022 | 72 | #2,490 |
| 2021 | 85 | #2,186 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,416 |
| 2019 | 93 | #2,043 |
| 2018 | 89 | #2,130 |
| 2017 | 76 | #2,384 |
| 2016 | 109 | #1,875 |
| 2015 | 104 | #1,937 |
| 2014 | 98 | #2,010 |
| 2013 | 129 | #1,646 |
| 2012 | 147 | #1,510 |
| 2011 | 148 | #1,503 |
| 2010 | 177 | #1,328 |
| 2009 | 141 | #1,593 |
| 2008 | 187 | #1,320 |
| 2007 | 167 | #1,419 |
| 2006 | 172 | #1,351 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,406 |
| 2004 | 134 | #1,497 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,445 |
| 2002 | 137 | #1,403 |
| 2001 | 139 | #1,367 |
| 2000 | 133 | #1,393 |
| 1999 | 116 | #1,480 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,565 |
| 1997 | 78 | #1,881 |
| 1996 | 99 | #1,575 |
| 1995 | 54 | #2,389 |
| 1994 | 39 | #2,983 |
| 1993 | 26 | #3,982 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,860 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,263 |
| 1990 | 10 | #7,874 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,755 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,386 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
Nicknames for Mackenna
Names like Mackenna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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Other spellings of Mackenna
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