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Mckynna

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KIN-uh
Origin
Scottish

Mckynna is a girls' name of Scottish origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Mckynna come from?

Scottish: likely a respelling of McKenna, a Gaelic surname

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

Mckynna is a girls' name.

How popular is Mckynna in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2011, with 13 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.

Half of all the girls named Mckynna in the US since 1880 were born between 2003 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.

1995Busiest: 13 in 20112022
Mckynna in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20225#15,300
20210–
20205#15,083
20190–
20189#10,540
20177#12,709
20166#14,326
20155#16,413
20147#13,063
20130–
201211#9,706
201113#8,610
20109#11,240
20097#13,698
20080–
200710#10,814
20069#11,412
20050–
20045#16,092
200312#8,500
20027#12,181
20017#12,049
20000–
19998#10,338
19985#14,116
19970–
19960–
19955#13,380

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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, “Mckynna: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckynna, updated 20 October 2026.