Makynna
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KEN-uh
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Makynna is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Makynna come from?
Irish: variant of McKenna, from Irish Mac Cionaoith
Is Makynna a girl's or a boy's name?
Makynna is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makynna in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Makynna, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2007, with 45 girls. It first appears in the records in 1996.
Half of all the girls named Makynna in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,264 girls in the US were given Makynna or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #271, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Makynna in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,540 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,227 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 30 | #4,680 |
| 2010 | 34 | #4,305 |
| 2009 | 26 | #5,377 |
| 2008 | 27 | #5,277 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,600 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,918 |
| 2005 | 34 | #4,114 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,551 |
| 2003 | 13 | #7,993 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,274 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,013 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,065 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
Nicknames for Makynna
- Kenna 7 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Makynna
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kennedy Brianna Sienna Teagan Kiara Camila Cassidy Briella Fiona Rowan Isabella Madilyn
Other spellings of Makynna
Names related to Makynna
More Irish names
Oscar Rory Maeve Finn Aiden Ryan Nolan Quinn Orla Cody Erin Ronan Connor Declan Casey Callan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Makynna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makynna, updated 20 October 2026.