Mekonnen
Origin
Amharic
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
historic royal name (Ras Mekonnen, Haile Selassie's father)
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mekonnen has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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