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 | ||
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| 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.
Where Makena is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
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- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#114 · 1 in 306
- California#1,361 · 1 in 9,513
Best ever in a state: #48 in Hawaii, 2018.
Show every state
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| Hawaii | #114 | 7 | 1 in 306 |
| California | #1,361 | 17 | 1 in 9,513 |
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See more about Makena
- 1,015 spots since 2020 (#1,704 → #2,719)
- Biggest jump: 302 spots in 2002
- Biggest drop: 221 spots in 2014
- 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 |
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| 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.
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