Mckenna

Where Mckenna comes from

From the Irish and Scottish Gaelic surname, variant of McKinney.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mckenna
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1972
    First appearance
    #8,292 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2002
    Peak, #177
    1,795 babies named Mckenna — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #375.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of mostly American usage.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes

No widely known Mckenna turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

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.