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Macie vs Mackenzee

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 812 Mackenzees. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Macie against Mackenzee, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Macie Mackenzee

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

Macie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2000, when Macie had 561 and Mackenzee had 57.

Side by side

  Macie Mackenzee
Total US births 23,503812
Most in one year 90657
Babies in 2025 703under 5
Estimated living today 21,000800
Median age today 1520
Peak year 20112000
Best rank 356th girls2,593rd girls
Rank in 2025 438thunranked
First recorded 18821991
Girls / boys 23,472 / 31812 / 0

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 Mackenzees alive today are over 20; half the Macies are over 15. That is 5 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: Macie and Mackenzee.