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Mackenzee vs Mackenzie

American parents have registered 149,135 Mackenzies since 1880, against 812 Mackenzees. Mackenzie is still ahead, with 1,442 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mackenzee 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

Mackenzie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2008, when Mackenzee had 47 and Mackenzie had 4,512.

Side by side

  Mackenzee Mackenzie
Total US births 812149,135
Most in one year 577,105
Babies in 2025 under 51,442
Estimated living today 800147,000
Median age today 2021
Peak year 20002001
Best rank 2,593rd girls40th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked228th
First recorded 19911973
Girls / boys 812 / 0141,274 / 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.

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: Mackenzee and Mackenzie.