Meaning and history
McKenna comes from an Irish and Scottish surname, the Anglicized Mac Cionaodha, derived from the given name Cionaodh. Almost unused as a given name before 1980, it rose rapidly in the 1990s, likely as a more feminine-seeming alternative to Mackenzie.
20062006: 1,570 births, rank #217
2007: 1,554 births, rank #227
2008: 1,522 births, rank #221
2009: 1,505 births, rank #216
2010: 1,378 births, rank #228
20112011: 1,333 births, rank #239
2012: 1,405 births, rank #227
2013: 1,471 births, rank #216
2014: 1,405 births, rank #234
2015: 1,305 births, rank #249
20162016: 1,254 births, rank #251
2017: 1,255 births, rank #254
2018: 1,262 births, rank #258
2019: 1,153 births, rank #287
2020: 1,135 births, rank #280
20212021: 1,024 births, rank #318
2022: 1,085 births, rank #291
2023: 941 births, rank #327
2024: 829 births, rank #375
20252025: 758 births, rank #410
McKenna moved from #376 to #410 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 2002, with 1,795 births.