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Makenna vs Makhia

American parents have registered 33,749 Makennas since 1880, against 771 Makhias. Makenna is still ahead, with 495 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Makenna against Makhia, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Makenna Makhia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Makenna has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1982 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Makenna had 1,451 and Makhia had 78.

Side by side

  Makenna Makhia
Total US births 33,749771
Most in one year 1,61978
Babies in 2025 4957
Estimated living today 33,000760
Median age today 1617
Peak year 20052003
Best rank 213th girls2,203rd girls
Rank in 2025 593rd11,932nd
First recorded 19821999
Girls / boys 33,741 / 8771 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Makenna and Makhia.