Meaning not yet researched.
Kenzie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 371 in 2025. Its best rank was #245 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #245 in 2014; #736 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Kenzie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#736 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #245.
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Kenzie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 371 girls in 2025. Peak: #245 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 1,330 (2014).
In 2025, 371 US girls were named Kenzie, making it the 736th most common girls’ name of the year, down 108 places from #628 in 2024. That is 102 fewer than the 473 girls named Kenzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #245, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,330. For comparison, it was #275 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Kenzie in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 21,874 US babies have been given the name, 98% of them girls and 2.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 10,382 babies named Kenzie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,993 US girls were named Kenzie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 993. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,332 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Kenzie ranked highest in South Dakota in 2025, at #254 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Kenzi (3,246 babies since 1880), Kinzie (1,639 babies since 1880), Kensie (1,051 babies since 1880) and Kenzy (979 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Kynzie, Kenzee and Kinzi are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Kynzie (773), Kenzee (472), Kinzi (291), Kinzee (266), Kynzi (211), Kynzee (201), Kenzey (186), Kinsie (149), Kynsie (97), Kenzye (10), Kenzia (10), Kennzie (6), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Kenzie in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 28 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Dakota | 5 | #254 | #202 |
| Maryland | 12 | #446 | #347 |
| Michigan | 18 | #471 | #179 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #498 | #261 |
| Massachusetts | 11 | #499 | #253 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #564 | #184 |
| Ohio | 18 | #577 | #211 |
| Arizona | 11 | #608 | #244 |
| North Carolina | 16 | #647 | #403 |
| New Jersey | 11 | #691 | #411 |
| Florida | 24 | #702 | #317 |
| Colorado | 7 | #746 | #271 |
| Indiana | 8 | #764 | #193 |
| Illinois | 12 | #770 | #298 |
| California | 39 | #782 | #433 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #803 | #302 |
| New York | 20 | #814 | #518 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #851 | #341 |
| Texas | 34 | #869 | #326 |
| Virginia | 7 | #989 | #395 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,008 | #225 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,032 | #406 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,151 | #362 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 371 | #736 | — | — |
| 2024 | 473 | #628 | 7 | #10,435 |
| 2023 | 525 | #566 | 10 | #8,009 |
| 2022 | 600 | #518 | 9 | #8,670 |
| 2021 | 676 | #464 | 8 | #9,286 |
| 2020 | 843 | #369 | 9 | #8,419 |
| 2019 | 781 | #395 | 6 | #11,501 |
| 2018 | 889 | #356 | 10 | #7,908 |
| 2017 | 842 | #371 | 5 | #13,319 |
| 2016 | 993 | #333 | 6 | #11,491 |
| 2015 | 1,145 | #275 | 10 | #7,788 |
| 2014 | 1,330 | #245 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,242 | #257 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,209 | #269 | 10 | #7,863 |
| 2011 | 1,025 | #309 | 8 | #9,216 |
| 2010 | 863 | #370 | 8 | #9,267 |
| 2009 | 700 | #449 | 16 | #5,708 |
| 2008 | 669 | #475 | 12 | #6,995 |
| 2007 | 652 | #496 | 9 | #8,601 |
| 2006 | 531 | #555 | 10 | #7,747 |
| 2005 | 501 | #572 | 18 | #4,737 |
| 2004 | 425 | #644 | 5 | #12,360 |
| 2003 | 403 | #660 | 9 | #7,566 |
| 2002 | 386 | #656 | 10 | #6,815 |
| 2001 | 311 | #768 | 5 | #11,532 |
| 2000 | 345 | #687 | 16 | #4,696 |
| 1999 | 324 | #697 | 15 | #4,663 |
| 1998 | 314 | #705 | 7 | #8,051 |
| 1997 | 254 | #815 | 5 | #10,072 |
| 1996 | 244 | #826 | 8 | #6,831 |
| 1995 | 191 | #984 | 7 | #7,415 |
| 1994 | 225 | #871 | 10 | #5,693 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,167 | 9 | #6,003 |
| 1992 | 177 | #1,043 | — | — |
| 1991 | 147 | #1,186 | 11 | #4,951 |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,351 | 9 | #5,613 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,861 | 6 | #7,462 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,794 | 7 | #6,144 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,929 | 6 | #6,555 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,679 | 6 | #6,183 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,373 | 7 | #5,291 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,453 | 8 | #4,717 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,469 | 5 | #6,888 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,486 | 9 | #4,347 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,773 | 11 | #3,738 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,198 | 11 | #3,702 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,357 | 11 | #3,511 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,058 | 11 | #3,490 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,383 | — | — |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,709 | 5 | #5,377 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,627 | — | — |
| 1965 | — | — | 5 | #4,204 |
| 1964 | — | — | 5 | #4,341 |
| 1960 | — | — | 5 | #4,339 |
| 1957 | — | — | 5 | #4,280 |
| 1956 | — | — | 6 | #3,739 |
| 1955 | — | — | 6 | #3,698 |
| 1954 | — | — | 5 | #4,110 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,621 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,012 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,218 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,358 |
| 1943 | — | — | 5 | #3,803 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,938 |
| 1922 | — | — | 6 | #4,084 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,501 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).