Makenzie
Makenzie reached its high-water mark in 2011 at number 139, and has been recorded 45,324 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 700th. About 45,000 Makenzies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Makenzie boys named Makenzie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 45,324
- Estimated living today
- 45,000
- Median age today
- 17
- Peak year
- 2011
- Best rank
- 139th
- Rank in 2025
- 700th
- First recorded
- 1975
- Girls / boys
- 45,023 / 301
How old the living Makenzies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 45,324 babies given the name since 1975, about 45,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 24,000 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Makenzies
- Makenzie Vega (born 1994)American actress
- Makenzie Fischer (born 1997)American water polo player
People named Makenzie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Makenzie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Makenzie is most concentrated in Utah (2.1×), Nevada (1.8×), Tennessee (1.7×), Idaho (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2011
The most popular girls’ names the year Makenzie peaked:
Makenzie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Makenzie | 247 | 691st |
| England and Wales girls | Makenzie | 181 | 1,045th |
| France girls | Makenzie | 40 | 6,427th |
| Ireland girls | Makenzie | 26 | 768th |
| Scotland boys | Makenzie | 20 | 400th |
| Scotland girls | Makenzie | 11 | 411th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Makenzie | 4 | 329th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Makenzie | 3 | 372nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Makenzie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.