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Mackenzee vs Macy

American parents have registered 33,304 Macys since 1880, against 812 Mackenzees. Macy is still ahead, with 390 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mackenzee against Macy, 1880 to 2025 0 400 800 1.2k 1.6k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mackenzee Macy

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

Macy has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1885 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1999, when Mackenzee had 44 and Macy had 988.

Side by side

  Mackenzee Macy
Total US births 81233,304
Most in one year 571,494
Babies in 2025 under 5390
Estimated living today 80032,000
Median age today 2020
Peak year 20002003
Best rank 2,593rd girls219th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked718th
First recorded 19911885
Girls / boys 812 / 032,749 / 555

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 Macy.