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Macel vs Mackenzie

American parents have registered 149,135 Mackenzies since 1880, against 826 Macels. Mackenzie is still ahead, with 1,442 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Macel against Mackenzie, 1880 to 2025 0 2k 4k 6k 8k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Macel Mackenzie

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

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Mackenzie for 53 years and Macel for 50 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Macel Mackenzie
Total US births 826149,135
Most in one year 377,105
Babies in 2025 under 51,442
Estimated living today 110147,000
Median age today 8421
Peak year 19172001
Best rank 1,183rd girls40th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked228th
First recorded 19001973
Girls / boys 821 / 5141,274 / 7,861

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Macels alive today are over 84; half the Mackenzies are over 21. That is 63 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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: Macel and Mackenzie.