Meaning not yet researched.
Mckenzie: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 517 in 2025. Its best rank was #133 in 2000.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #133 in 2000; #576 in 2025. About 98% of babies named Mckenzie in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#576 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2000, at #133.
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Mckenzie: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 517 girls in 2025. Peak: #133 in 2000 · most girls in one year: 2,528 (2000).
In 2025, 517 US girls were named Mckenzie, making it the 576th most common girls’ name of the year, down 82 places from #494 in 2024. That is 105 fewer than the 622 girls named Mckenzie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #133, reached in 2000. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,528. For comparison, it was #151 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mckenzie in 77 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 5 babies. In all, 67,045 US babies have been given the name, 97% of them girls and 3.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 22,943 babies named Mckenzie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,367 US girls were named Mckenzie; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,999. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,109 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mckenzie ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #192 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mckenzi (2,022 babies since 1880), Mckinzie (1,538 babies since 1880) and Mckenzy (1,043 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mckenzee, Mckensie and Mckynzie are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Mckenzee (817), Mckensie (768), Mckynzie (599), Mkenzie (245), Mckinzee (202), Mckenzey (173), Mckenzye (168), Mckensi (139), Mckinzi (116), Mckynzi (72), Mckynzee (53), Mckennzie (29), 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 Mckenzie 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 19 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 14 | #192 | #65 |
| South Carolina | 18 | #284 | #52 |
| Georgia | 33 | #332 | #84 |
| Louisiana | 13 | #364 | #54 |
| Idaho | 6 | #392 | #104 |
| Maryland | 14 | #395 | #93 |
| North Carolina | 26 | #436 | #100 |
| Wisconsin | 12 | #442 | #169 |
| Tennessee | 18 | #446 | #98 |
| Michigan | 19 | #452 | #182 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #507 | #117 |
| Virginia | 16 | #508 | #109 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #524 | #163 |
| Indiana | 13 | #535 | #254 |
| Arkansas | 6 | #539 | #73 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #548 | #148 |
| Alabama | 9 | #564 | #60 |
| Missouri | 10 | #581 | #156 |
| Utah | 7 | #585 | #141 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #602 | #339 |
| Oregon | 6 | #602 | #96 |
| New York | 27 | #620 | #221 |
| Minnesota | 8 | #640 | #233 |
| Florida | 24 | #706 | #137 |
| California | 44 | #711 | #285 |
| Illinois | 13 | #733 | #167 |
| Arizona | 9 | #737 | #170 |
| Texas | 40 | #757 | #178 |
| Ohio | 12 | #779 | #151 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #820 | #237 |
| Washington | 7 | #876 | #290 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,004 | #182 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 517 | #576 | 11 | #7,506 |
| 2024 | 622 | #494 | 13 | #6,696 |
| 2023 | 710 | #437 | 7 | #10,415 |
| 2022 | 885 | #357 | 9 | #8,752 |
| 2021 | 991 | #331 | 7 | #10,414 |
| 2020 | 1,136 | #279 | 7 | #10,227 |
| 2019 | 1,325 | #236 | 14 | #6,305 |
| 2018 | 1,521 | #203 | 17 | #5,461 |
| 2017 | 1,661 | #186 | 20 | #4,873 |
| 2016 | 1,999 | #156 | 17 | #5,467 |
| 2015 | 2,140 | #151 | 12 | #6,943 |
| 2014 | 2,322 | #145 | 26 | #3,977 |
| 2013 | 2,219 | #140 | 22 | #4,414 |
| 2012 | 2,122 | #151 | 19 | #4,974 |
| 2011 | 2,246 | #136 | 26 | #3,960 |
| 2010 | 2,133 | #145 | 25 | #4,071 |
| 2009 | 2,066 | #155 | 34 | #3,309 |
| 2008 | 2,288 | #151 | 28 | #3,795 |
| 2007 | 2,233 | #160 | 38 | #3,064 |
| 2006 | 2,129 | #166 | 16 | #5,458 |
| 2005 | 2,078 | #163 | 36 | #2,937 |
| 2004 | 2,184 | #151 | 47 | #2,403 |
| 2003 | 2,251 | #149 | 33 | #2,973 |
| 2002 | 2,341 | #143 | 36 | #2,666 |
| 2001 | 2,471 | #135 | 48 | #2,174 |
| 2000 | 2,528 | #133 | 58 | #1,841 |
| 1999 | 2,284 | #141 | 72 | #1,552 |
| 1998 | 2,243 | #142 | 91 | #1,313 |
| 1997 | 2,068 | #150 | 89 | #1,290 |
| 1996 | 1,978 | #158 | 120 | #1,027 |
| 1995 | 1,808 | #165 | 113 | #1,057 |
| 1994 | 1,541 | #192 | 103 | #1,116 |
| 1993 | 1,240 | #225 | 107 | #1,082 |
| 1992 | 950 | #290 | 86 | #1,216 |
| 1991 | 677 | #379 | 79 | #1,261 |
| 1990 | 497 | #490 | 72 | #1,312 |
| 1989 | 372 | #589 | 60 | #1,418 |
| 1988 | 351 | #582 | 62 | #1,315 |
| 1987 | 305 | #628 | 57 | #1,309 |
| 1986 | 228 | #761 | 40 | #1,633 |
| 1985 | 183 | #877 | 32 | #1,855 |
| 1984 | 158 | #932 | 41 | #1,520 |
| 1983 | 133 | #1,046 | 25 | #2,126 |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,202 | 31 | #1,840 |
| 1981 | 120 | #1,142 | 39 | #1,568 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,512 | 38 | #1,583 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,255 | 30 | #1,851 |
| 1978 | 105 | #1,200 | 28 | #1,854 |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,374 | 31 | #1,731 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,198 | 19 | #2,390 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,009 | 11 | #3,366 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,726 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,196 |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #4,798 |
| 1965 | — | — | 9 | #2,914 |
| 1964 | — | — | 8 | #3,197 |
| 1963 | — | — | 5 | #4,428 |
| 1962 | — | — | 6 | #3,886 |
| 1961 | — | — | 6 | #3,917 |
| 1960 | — | — | 6 | #3,920 |
| 1958 | — | — | 5 | #4,312 |
| 1953 | — | — | 6 | #3,664 |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,811 |
| 1951 | — | — | 7 | #3,256 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,042 |
| 1948 | — | — | 7 | #3,207 |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,206 |
| 1944 | — | — | 6 | #3,338 |
| 1943 | — | — | 8 | #2,882 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,777 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,514 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,600 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,750 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,393 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,367 |
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).