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Mackenzie vs Macyn

American parents have registered 149,135 Mackenzies since 1880, against 1,074 Macyns. Mackenzie is still ahead, with 1,442 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mackenzie Macyn

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 2011, when Mackenzie had 3,824 and Macyn had 82.

Side by side

  Mackenzie Macyn
Total US births 149,1351,074
Most in one year 7,10582
Babies in 2025 1,44218
Estimated living today 147,0001,100
Median age today 2113
Peak year 20012011
Best rank 40th girls2,511th girls
Rank in 2025 228th6,325th
First recorded 19731995
Girls / boys 141,274 / 7,861932 / 142

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 Mackenzies alive today are over 21; half the Macyns are over 13. That is 8 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: Mackenzie and Macyn.