Meaning not yet researched.
Mackenzie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,343 in 2025. Its best rank was #40 in 2001.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #40 in 2001; #228 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Mackenzie in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#228 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2001, at #40.
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Mackenzie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,343 girls in 2025. Peak: #40 in 2001 · most girls in one year: 6,934 (2001).
In 2025, 1,343 US girls were named Mackenzie, making it the 228th most common girls’ name of the year, down 28 places from #200 in 2024. That is 181 fewer than the 1,524 girls named Mackenzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #40, reached in 2001. That year also had the most girls given the name: 6,934. For comparison, it was #73 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mackenzie in 53 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1973 with 6 babies. In all, 149,135 US babies have been given the name, 95% of them girls and 5.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 55,591 babies named Mackenzie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 23,011 US girls were named Mackenzie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 3,410. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,197 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mackenzie ranked highest in New Hampshire in 2025, at #79 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 3 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Makenzie (45,324 babies since 1880), Makenzi (3,631 babies since 1880), Mackenzi (2,061 babies since 1880) and Mackenzy (1,203 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Makenzee, Mackensie and Makinzie are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Kenzy, Mac and Mack.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Makenzee (990), Mackensie (909), Makinzie (886), Mackinzie (839), Mackenzee (812), Makensie (693), Mackynzie (383), Makenzye (195), Mackenzey (170), Mackenzye (140), Mackensi (94), Mackinzee (75), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hampshire | 15 | #79 | #38 |
| Connecticut | 31 | #86 | #37 |
| Maryland | 45 | #98 | #53 |
| New Jersey | 72 | #101 | #45 |
| Massachusetts | 47 | #113 | #52 |
| District of Columbia | 6 | #137 | #81 |
| New York | 119 | #139 | #62 |
| Virginia | 54 | #144 | #44 |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | #149 | #32 |
| Illinois | 56 | #178 | #71 |
| Ohio | 60 | #185 | #68 |
| Minnesota | 28 | #197 | #92 |
| Colorado | 30 | #204 | #68 |
| Delaware | 5 | #204 | #43 |
| Indiana | 34 | #207 | #67 |
| Michigan | 39 | #232 | #56 |
| Oregon | 16 | #235 | #79 |
| Georgia | 42 | #249 | #78 |
| Iowa | 14 | #255 | #120 |
| Florida | 72 | #266 | #80 |
| Wisconsin | 20 | #269 | #69 |
| California | 122 | #271 | #121 |
| Missouri | 23 | #273 | #64 |
| Louisiana | 16 | #285 | #84 |
| Tennessee | 27 | #292 | #82 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #296 | #93 |
| North Carolina | 37 | #302 | #63 |
| Nevada | 9 | #317 | #84 |
| South Carolina | 16 | #323 | #75 |
| Oklahoma | 12 | #365 | #99 |
| Texas | 90 | #381 | #111 |
| Idaho | 6 | #388 | #90 |
| Arizona | 17 | #405 | #74 |
| Kansas | 7 | #479 | #100 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #490 | #81 |
| Washington | 13 | #530 | #77 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #534 | #70 |
| Alabama | 5 | #899 | #83 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,343 | #228 | 99 | #1,671 |
| 2024 | 1,524 | #200 | 86 | #1,870 |
| 2023 | 1,744 | #167 | 88 | #1,821 |
| 2022 | 2,036 | #142 | 74 | #2,053 |
| 2021 | 2,277 | #123 | 63 | #2,247 |
| 2020 | 2,297 | #119 | 47 | #2,681 |
| 2019 | 2,591 | #111 | 46 | #2,749 |
| 2018 | 2,827 | #106 | 35 | #3,281 |
| 2017 | 2,962 | #100 | 35 | #3,288 |
| 2016 | 3,410 | #85 | 28 | #3,852 |
| 2015 | 3,869 | #73 | 30 | #3,647 |
| 2014 | 4,160 | #69 | 30 | #3,583 |
| 2013 | 4,024 | #62 | 42 | #2,792 |
| 2012 | 3,764 | #71 | 29 | #3,677 |
| 2011 | 3,799 | #68 | 25 | #4,062 |
| 2010 | 3,883 | #68 | 35 | #3,217 |
| 2009 | 3,902 | #77 | 44 | #2,787 |
| 2008 | 4,474 | #65 | 38 | #3,081 |
| 2007 | 4,628 | #65 | 54 | #2,400 |
| 2006 | 5,205 | #53 | 69 | #1,959 |
| 2005 | 5,199 | #51 | 81 | #1,668 |
| 2004 | 5,728 | #45 | 106 | #1,372 |
| 2003 | 5,865 | #45 | 84 | #1,533 |
| 2002 | 6,268 | #42 | 139 | #1,082 |
| 2001 | 6,934 | #40 | 171 | #916 |
| 2000 | 6,350 | #43 | 252 | #699 |
| 1999 | 5,426 | #52 | 285 | #630 |
| 1998 | 4,890 | #64 | 292 | #626 |
| 1997 | 4,491 | #71 | 380 | #526 |
| 1996 | 4,597 | #75 | 465 | #470 |
| 1995 | 3,963 | #88 | 579 | #398 |
| 1994 | 3,196 | #102 | 648 | #366 |
| 1993 | 2,897 | #113 | 575 | #402 |
| 1992 | 2,673 | #126 | 548 | #411 |
| 1991 | 1,494 | #199 | 398 | #495 |
| 1990 | 1,151 | #247 | 355 | #524 |
| 1989 | 855 | #307 | 327 | #532 |
| 1988 | 774 | #322 | 261 | #572 |
| 1987 | 711 | #341 | 223 | #607 |
| 1986 | 490 | #439 | 151 | #740 |
| 1985 | 433 | #482 | 104 | #890 |
| 1984 | 337 | #555 | 79 | #1,005 |
| 1983 | 271 | #636 | 48 | #1,355 |
| 1982 | 254 | #694 | 40 | #1,555 |
| 1981 | 240 | #703 | 46 | #1,408 |
| 1980 | 232 | #722 | 45 | #1,424 |
| 1979 | 179 | #868 | 39 | #1,520 |
| 1978 | 229 | #694 | 34 | #1,639 |
| 1977 | 237 | #666 | 49 | #1,280 |
| 1976 | 165 | #838 | 39 | #1,441 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,477 | 14 | #2,846 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,289 | 7 | #4,448 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,003 | — | — |
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).