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Mykah vs Mykenzie

American parents have registered 2,491 Mykahs since 1880, against 1,169 Mykenzies. Mykah is still ahead, with 71 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mykah against Mykenzie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mykah Mykenzie

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

Of the 37 years in which either name was published, Mykah for 30 years and Mykenzie for 7 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Mykah Mykenzie
Total US births 2,4911,169
Most in one year 13383
Babies in 2025 716
Estimated living today 2,5001,200
Median age today 1321
Peak year 20111999
Best rank 2,369th girls1,893rd girls
Rank in 2025 4,067th13,208th
First recorded 19851992
Girls / boys 1,381 / 1,1101,169 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Mykenzies alive today are over 21; half the Mykahs 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: Mykah and Mykenzie.