Makena
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Makena is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in India than in any other country. Recorded meaning: A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
- BEBelgium1 in 5.9M(measured from records)
- INIndia1 in 8.6M
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- India (measured from records)
- Sources
- 222 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.9M (inferred from the name graph)
155 people
Highest-authority source
Belgium
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Makena counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | 155 | 1 in 8.6M | 155 | Makena | 9 |
| BE Belgium | 2 | 1 in 5.9M | 2 | — | — |
| ZA South Africa | — | — | — | Makena | 21 |
| US United States | — | — | 5.7K | Makena | 222 |
| KE Kenya | — | — | — | Makena | 17 |
| AU Australia | — | — | — | Makena | 18 |
155 people counted by Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Makena is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ki, Kikuyu (Kenya): "the happy one"
as a nameAfrican Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Makena Onjerikab. 1950KEKenyan writer
- Makena Carrb. 2000USAmerican soccer player
- Makena Hodgsonb. 2000CACanadian luger
- Makena Lei Carnahanb. 2004USAmerican actress
- Makena Joyactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 33 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 284 | #11,007 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls | — | 155 | #21,179 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 2 | #148,799 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, voter-file supplement (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Makena mean, and where does it come from?
- A census-designated place in Maui County, Hawaii, United States. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Makena have the most bearers?
- In India, the national register counted about 155 people named Makena, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled makena.
- Where is Makena most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Makena is densest in Belgium — about 1 in 5.9 million people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Makena?
- In India, the national register counted 155 people named Makena, about 1 in 8.6 million residents.
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About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Makena”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.