Mckennah
Feminine · Gaelic roots · “son of Cionaodh (as McKenna)”
Mckennah is McKenna with a final h, a three-syllable name with its weight in the middle, muh-KEN-uh. It keeps the Mc of an Irish surname, one of the Gaelic 'son of' names that American families began giving to daughters in the late twentieth century.
How old is the name Mckennah?
Mckennah first appears in US birth records in 1992 — 33 years ago. The typical Mckennah alive today was born around 2006, making them about 19 years old. About 500 people named Mckennah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mckennah most popular?
Mckennah peaked in 1999, reaching #3804 nationally. See the whole 1999 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Cionaodh (Gaelic) to Mckennah
The story of Mckennah
McKenna is an Irish surname, and like most Mc- names it names a father: 'son of Cionaodh'. It moved from surname to girls' first name in America in the late twentieth century, and Mckennah followed it with a final h, the ending that gives Hannah and Savannah their look. The spelling adds a letter and nothing else, and nothing records who first wrote it this way.
Meaning
son of Cionaodh (as McKenna)
Mckennah is a spelling of McKenna, an Irish surname meaning 'son of Cionaodh', a Gaelic personal name that English usually writes as Kenneth. The final h adds nothing to the sound or the meaning.
How the name formed
- CionaodhGaelic
- McKennaIrish surname
- McKennagiven name
- Mckennah
Pronouncing Mckennah
muh-KEN-uh
Said like McKenna; the final h is silent.
Nicknames for Mckennah
Limited
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1992
- Most girls named
- 199931 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3804reached in 1999
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%6 in 2024, from 6
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mckennahs among us
people named Mckennah are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Mckennah sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- Sounds exactly like McKenna, a name American readers already know.
- Takes Kenna as a natural short form.
- Forms will struggle with the capital K inside the name and drop the final h; expect to spell it out.
- The name is a surname meaning 'son of', which some people will point out for a girl. The same is true of McKenna and Mackenzie, and it rarely matters.
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- How many Mckennahs are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Mckennah are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Mckennah in 2025?
- Mckennah is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Mckennah will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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