Mckensie vs Mckenzie
American parents have registered 67,045 Mckenzies since 1880, against 768 Mckensies. Mckenzie is still ahead, with 528 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mckensie Mckenzie
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
Mckenzie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1917 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.
The closest they came was 1981, when Mckensie had 7 and Mckenzie had 159.
Side by side
| Mckensie | Mckenzie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 768 | 67,045 |
| Most in one year | 48 | 2,586 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 528 |
| Estimated living today | 760 | 66,000 |
| Median age today | 25 | 19 |
| Peak year | 1997 | 2000 |
| Best rank | 2,622nd girls | 133rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 576th |
| First recorded | 1981 | 1917 |
| Girls / boys | 768 / 0 | 64,779 / 2,266 |
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 Mckensies alive today are over 25; half the Mckenzies are over 19. That is 6 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mckensie and Mckenzie.