Makena
#2,719 for girls in 2025, 63 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #12,231
Given to girls 98.7% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 381 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,568since 1984
Makena over time
Rank among girls' names. Makena has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,719 | 63 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,011 | 97 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,774 | 115 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,870 | 108 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,768 | 115 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,704 | 119 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,465 | 150 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,284 | 178 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,182 | 207 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,132 | 224 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,126 | 226 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,215 | 201 | — | |
| 2013 | #994 | 252 | — | |
| 2012 | #988 | 255 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,045 | 236 | — | |
| 2010 | #899 | 294 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #949 | 281 | — | |
| 2008 | #863 | 323 | #12,553 | 5 |
| 2007 | #906 | 303 | — | |
| 2006 | #804 | 341 | #7,998 | 9 |
| 2005 | #717 | 381 | — | |
| 2004 | #831 | 297 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #824 | 298 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #774 | 306 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #1,076 | 197 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,042 | 201 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,174 | 165 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #1,285 | 140 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,386 | 123 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #1,752 | 85 | #7,971 | 6 |
| 1995 | #2,006 | 68 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #2,209 | 60 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #3,108 | 37 | — | |
| 1992 | #2,830 | 42 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,465 | 13 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #5,598 | 14 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | — | |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | — | |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Makena! It came in at #8,153, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1984–1987, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
See more about Makena
- 708 spots since 2024 (#2,011 → #2,719)
- 1,015 spots since 2020 (#1,704 → #2,719)
- 1,593 spots since 2015 (#1,126 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 302 spots in 2002 (#1,076 → #774)
- Biggest drop: 221 spots in 2014 (#994 → #1,215)
- Debuted 1984
- Peaked 2005 at #717 (381 births)
- Births halved by 2018, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2002–2010
- Highest: 1 in 4,850 girls born in 2005 were named Makena (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,512 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 44.6% of all girls named Makena (2,928) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 53 | #5,598 (1988) | #7,766 |
| 1990s | 747 | #1,174 (1999) | #2,847 |
| 2000s | 2,928 | #717 (2005) | #879 |
| 2010s | 2,223 | #899 (2010) | #1,133 |
| 2020s | 617 | #1,704 (2020) | #1,974 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Makena in 2010
Top girls' names in 2010
Top boys' names in 2010
More about 2010
girls
1,777,595 girls got a published name in 2010; 1 in 6,046 of them was named Makena, which outranked 95.5% of the 19,841 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,918,676 boys got a published name in 2010; 1 in 383,735 of them was named Makena, which outranked 14.3% of the 14,270 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).