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Makenzie vs Makhia

American parents have registered 45,324 Makenzies since 1880, against 771 Makhias. Makenzie is still ahead, with 406 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Makenzie against Makhia, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Makenzie Makhia

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

Makenzie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1975 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2003, when Makenzie had 1,584 and Makhia had 78.

Side by side

  Makenzie Makhia
Total US births 45,324771
Most in one year 2,21878
Babies in 2025 4067
Estimated living today 45,000760
Median age today 1717
Peak year 20112003
Best rank 139th girls2,203rd girls
Rank in 2025 700th11,932nd
First recorded 19751999
Girls / boys 45,023 / 301771 / 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.

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: Makenzie and Makhia.