Meaning not yet researched.
Makenzie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 406 in 2025. Its best rank was #139 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #139 in 2011; #700 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makenzie in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#700 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #139.
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Makenzie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 406 girls in 2025. Peak: #139 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 2,210 (2011).
In 2025, 406 US girls were named Makenzie, making it the 700th most common girls’ name of the year, down 63 places from #637 in 2024. That is 58 fewer than the 464 girls named Makenzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #139, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,210. For comparison, it was #210 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makenzie in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 5 babies. In all, 45,324 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 17,565 babies named Makenzie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,078 US girls were named Makenzie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,309. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,959 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Makenzie ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #363 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mackenzie (149,135 babies since 1880), Makenzi (3,631 babies since 1880), Mackenzi (2,061 babies since 1880) and Makenzy (1,476 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Makynzi, Makinzee and Makinzi 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: Makynzi (246), Makinzee (197), Makinzi (195), Makenzey (169), Makynzee (164), Makensi (52), Makynsie (5).
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 Makenzie 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 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 14 | #363 | #137 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #411 | #154 |
| Alabama | 12 | #420 | #86 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #504 | #155 |
| Virginia | 15 | #531 | #206 |
| Michigan | 15 | #536 | #148 |
| Georgia | 21 | #542 | #135 |
| Tennessee | 14 | #555 | #140 |
| Maryland | 9 | #582 | #128 |
| Connecticut | 5 | #590 | #303 |
| Wisconsin | 8 | #591 | #257 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #595 | #155 |
| Indiana | 11 | #602 | #211 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #647 | #263 |
| Utah | 6 | #674 | #305 |
| Ohio | 14 | #697 | #175 |
| Florida | 23 | #729 | #207 |
| Arizona | 9 | #731 | #337 |
| Illinois | 12 | #775 | #262 |
| New York | 21 | #775 | #353 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #798 | #211 |
| Texas | 36 | #834 | #217 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #846 | #314 |
| California | 29 | #960 | #462 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,033 | #172 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,179 | #310 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 406 | #700 | — | — |
| 2024 | 464 | #637 | — | — |
| 2023 | 566 | #536 | 5 | #13,441 |
| 2022 | 619 | #509 | — | — |
| 2021 | 734 | #430 | — | — |
| 2020 | 898 | #345 | — | — |
| 2019 | 949 | #338 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,034 | #317 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,099 | #295 | 8 | #9,391 |
| 2016 | 1,309 | #243 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,550 | #210 | 6 | #11,584 |
| 2014 | 1,781 | #182 | 7 | #10,326 |
| 2013 | 1,938 | #166 | — | — |
| 2012 | 2,127 | #150 | — | — |
| 2011 | 2,210 | #139 | 8 | #9,300 |
| 2010 | 1,999 | #153 | 5 | #13,523 |
| 2009 | 1,898 | #175 | 6 | #11,917 |
| 2008 | 2,066 | #162 | 6 | #12,018 |
| 2007 | 1,939 | #180 | 6 | #11,819 |
| 2006 | 1,780 | #197 | 6 | #11,530 |
| 2005 | 1,715 | #204 | 9 | #8,069 |
| 2004 | 1,604 | #213 | 19 | #4,530 |
| 2003 | 1,578 | #210 | 6 | #10,386 |
| 2002 | 1,624 | #198 | 7 | #9,036 |
| 2001 | 1,660 | #196 | 12 | #5,895 |
| 2000 | 1,613 | #199 | 11 | #6,175 |
| 1999 | 1,425 | #223 | 21 | #3,661 |
| 1998 | 1,158 | #270 | 17 | #4,127 |
| 1997 | 995 | #288 | 18 | #3,829 |
| 1996 | 931 | #306 | 19 | #3,630 |
| 1995 | 727 | #359 | 18 | #3,645 |
| 1994 | 630 | #400 | 11 | #5,313 |
| 1993 | 538 | #472 | 22 | #3,108 |
| 1992 | 376 | #604 | 14 | #4,250 |
| 1991 | 284 | #732 | 8 | #6,298 |
| 1990 | 181 | #1,006 | 5 | #8,982 |
| 1989 | 104 | #1,431 | — | — |
| 1988 | 107 | #1,339 | 5 | #8,055 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,478 | 5 | #7,692 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,780 | 5 | #7,409 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,424 | 6 | #6,234 |
| 1984 | 43 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,209 | — | — |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1981 | 22 | #3,690 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,084 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,854 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,177 | — | — |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,561 | — | — |
| 1976 | 15 | #4,264 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,960 | — | — |
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).