Kenzi
Kenzi was given to 47 girls in 2025, #3,322 among girls’ names; 3,246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,220 Americans named Kenzi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 9 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Kenzi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Kenzi?
#3,322 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenzi fell from #1,502 in 2015 to #3,322 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 85.1 to 29.2 per million.
208 babies in 2013, the peak
Kenzi peaked in 2013, when 208 babies were given it (203 girls, #1,188 among girls’ names). The 47 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #3,322 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,788 | 0.04 |
| 2023 | 71 | #2,505 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 88 | #2,165 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 120 | #1,724 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 128 | #1,627 | 0.08 |
| 2019 | 131 | #1,621 | 0.08 |
| 2018 | 116 | #1,767 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 139 | #1,577 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 164 | #1,415 | 0.09 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 152 | #1,502 | 0.09 |
| 2014 | 188 | #1,278 | 0.11 |
| 2013 | 203 | #1,188 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 200 | #1,216 | 0.11 |
| 2011 | 158 | #1,437 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,726 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 99 | #2,069 | 0.05 |
| 2008 | 81 | #2,391 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,109 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 78 | #2,413 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,294 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 61 | #2,694 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,719 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,453 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 44 | #3,166 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,489 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,404 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 47 | #2,818 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,266 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 38 | #3,114 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 27 | #3,925 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 51 | #2,480 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 26 | #4,043 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,534 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 27 | #3,873 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 24 | #4,164 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,203 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,165 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,952 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,091 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,830 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,065 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,990 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,788 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenzi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,246 Americans recorded as Kenzi, 99% are girls and 1% boys. In 2025 it went to 47 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Kenzi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenzi, and how old are they?
3,220 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,246 Americans ever recorded as Kenzi. The median Kenzi alive today is 13 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 2,671 people named Kenzi (2,581 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,724 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 304 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,620 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Kenzi born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,327 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Kenzi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Kenzi?
Kenzi is a less common spelling of Kenzie: SSA has recorded 3,246 Kenzi and 21,874 Kenzie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 27,644 babies since 1880, Kenzi is the second most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 496 babies (9.5%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Kenzi
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Kenzi and names like it
- Compare Kenzi and KenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenzi peaked in 2013.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenzi since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Kenzi.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kenzi alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.