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Girl · Irish Gaelic
Makenna
Say it: muh-KEN-uh
Meaning
A spelling of McKenna, from the Irish surname Mac Cionaodha 'son of Cionaodh', a personal name of unsettled meaning.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
This spelling spread in the US from the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 30,358 babies given this name since 1982
- At its height in 2005, about 1 in 1,100 girls
- 771 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mckenna, McKenna
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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