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Makenzie vs Maksym

American parents have registered 45,324 Makenzies since 1880, against 540 Maksyms. Makenzie is still ahead, with 406 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Makenzie Maksym

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 2025, when Makenzie had 406 and Maksym had 31.

Side by side

  Makenzie Maksym
Total US births 45,324540
Most in one year 2,21839
Babies in 2025 40631
Estimated living today 45,000540
Median age today 1711
Peak year 20112014
Best rank 139th girls2,929th boys
Rank in 2025 700th3,583rd
First recorded 19752001
Girls / boys 45,023 / 3010 / 540

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 Makenzies alive today are over 17; half the Maksyms are over 11. That is 6 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.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Makenzie Maksym
England and Wales 428179
France 4040
Ireland 2623
Scotland 314

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Makenzie and Maksym.