Makana
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- #5,045 for boys in 2025, 19 births
- Given to boys 60.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 29 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 517since 1986
Makana over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | #5,045 | 19 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #7,640 | 14 | #5,470 | 17 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 | #6,479 | 13 |
| 2021 | #8,464 | 12 | #6,335 | 13 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #7,136 | 11 |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | #10,775 | 6 |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #3,681 | 29 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #5,999 | 14 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #4,313 | 22 |
| 2012 | #8,208 | 14 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #8,701 | 13 | #5,047 | 18 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 | #5,334 | 17 |
| 2008 | #8,529 | 14 | #6,070 | 14 |
| 2007 | #7,092 | 18 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #4,223 | 22 |
| 2005 | #6,820 | 17 | #5,278 | 15 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #6,055 | 19 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #6,698 | 16 | #4,188 | 19 |
| 2001 | #6,619 | 16 | #4,302 | 18 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 | #4,197 | 16 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #13,386 | 5 | #4,052 | 15 |
| 1994 | #10,569 | 7 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | #6,228 | 8 | |
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First appearance
1986
The first year at least five boys were named Makana! It came in at #6,721, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1986–1992, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Makana is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · boys
- Hawaii#104 · 1 in 324
Best ever in a state: #91 in Hawaii, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #104 | 9 | 1 in 324 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 398 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #5,045)
- 3,694 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #5,045)
- 954 spots since 2015 (#5,999 → #5,045)
Rise & fade · boys
30 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1986
- Peaked 2016 at #3,681 (29 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 65,439
- Highest: 1 in 65,439 boys born in 2016 were named Makana (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 34.2% of all boys named Makana (177) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2018
- Mostly girls until 2017, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #6,721 (1986) | #6,721 |
| 1990s | 88 | #4,052 (1995) | #4,987 |
| 2000s | 177 | #4,011 (2007) | #4,852 |
| 2010s | 160 | #3,681 (2016) | #5,994 |
| 2020s | 87 | #5,045 (2025) | #6,252 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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