Makennah

Gender: Girl
Say it: muh-KEN-uh
Origin: Irish
US rank, 2025: #14,937 for girls

Makennah is a girls' name of Irish origin, meaning “son of Cionaodh”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Makennah mean?

Irish: spelling of Makenna, itself a spelling of McKenna, from Mac Cionaodha

“son of Cionaodh”

A spelling of McKenna, the Irish surname meaning son of Cionaodh, a name anglicised as Kenny or Kenneth.

Meaning borrowed from Makenna. More on Wiktionary.

Is Makennah a girl's or a boy's name?

Makennah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Makennah in the US?

Rank in 2025: 14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025: 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend: Falling fast down 89% in five years
Same name in a class: under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Makennah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 51 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

Half of all the girls named Makennah in the US since 1880 were born between 2004 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,264 girls in the US were given Makennah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #271, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

Mckenna 758
Makenna 495
Makynna 6
Makennah 5

1995Busiest: 51 in 20072025

Makennah in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	5	#14,937
2024	0	–
2023	0	–
2022	5	#15,300
2021	10	#9,557
2020	13	#7,964
2019	17	#6,694
2018	17	#6,788
2017	28	#4,809
2016	24	#5,444
2015	34	#4,231
2014	29	#4,766
2013	23	#5,642
2012	34	#4,294
2011	35	#4,150
2010	46	#3,469
2009	50	#3,297
2008	48	#3,419
2007	51	#3,289
2006	22	#5,904
2005	37	#3,872
2004	27	#4,812
2003	17	#6,571
2002	17	#6,386
2001	24	#4,829
2000	25	#4,644
1999	29	#3,966
1998	14	#6,714
1997	8	#9,797
1996	9	#8,807
1995	6	#11,778