Makena

Where Makena comes from

Makena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1950
    Makena Onjerika born
    Kenyan writer
  2. 1984
    First appearance
    #8,153 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2000
    Makena Hodgson born
    Canadian luger
  4. 2005
    Peak, #717
    381 babies named Makena — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2018
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,284.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Makena Onjerika · Kenyan writer, born 1950
  • Makena Hodgson · Canadian luger, born 2000

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.