Kenzie
Kenzie was given to 371 girls in 2025, #736 among girls’ names; 21,874 Americans have been recorded with it since 1918 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 21,600 Americans named Kenzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 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 Kenzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Kenzie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Kenzie is “a female given name, short form of MacKenzie”
Also “a male given name, short form of MacKenzie”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Kenzie?
#736 among girls’ names, 2025
Kenzie fell from #275 in 2015 to #736 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.64 to 0.23 per 1,000.
1,330 babies in 2014, the peak
Kenzie peaked in 2014, when 1,330 girls were given it, #245 among girls’ names. The 371 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 371 | #736 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 473 | #628 | 0.29 |
| 2023 | 525 | #566 | 0.33 |
| 2022 | 600 | #518 | 0.37 |
| 2021 | 676 | #464 | 0.41 |
| 2020 | 843 | #369 | 0.52 |
| 2019 | 781 | #395 | 0.47 |
| 2018 | 889 | #356 | 0.52 |
| 2017 | 842 | #371 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 993 | #333 | 0.56 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,145 | #275 | 0.64 |
| 2014 | 1,330 | #245 | 0.74 |
| 2013 | 1,242 | #257 | 0.71 |
| 2012 | 1,209 | #269 | 0.69 |
| 2011 | 1,025 | #309 | 0.58 |
| 2010 | 863 | #370 | 0.49 |
| 2009 | 700 | #449 | 0.38 |
| 2008 | 669 | #475 | 0.35 |
| 2007 | 652 | #496 | 0.34 |
| 2006 | 531 | #555 | 0.28 |
| 2005 | 501 | #572 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 425 | #644 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 403 | #660 | 0.22 |
| 2002 | 386 | #656 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 311 | #768 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 345 | #687 | 0.19 |
| 1999 | 324 | #696 | 0.18 |
| 1998 | 314 | #705 | 0.18 |
| 1997 | 254 | #815 | 0.15 |
| 1996 | 244 | #826 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 191 | #981 | 0.11 |
| 1994 | 225 | #870 | 0.13 |
| 1993 | 151 | #1,165 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 177 | #1,041 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 147 | #1,182 | 0.08 |
| 1990 | 118 | #1,347 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,856 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 70 | #1,792 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,928 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,964 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 36 | #2,678 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,452 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #2,469 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,772 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,198 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,357 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,057 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,381 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,707 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,626 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Kenzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 21,874 Americans recorded as Kenzie, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 371 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 Kenzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Kenzie, and how old are they?
21,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 21,874 Americans ever recorded as Kenzie. The median Kenzie alive today is 14 years old; half are between 9 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 18,539 people named Kenzie (18,118 women and girls, 421 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,367 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 142 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,740 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,990 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 10,700 |
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 Kenzie born?
The states with the most babies named Kenzie are California, Texas and Florida, with 31% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 39 | #782 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 34 | #869 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 24 | #702 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #498 | 0.9× |
| New York | 20 | #814 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 18 | #577 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 18 | #471 | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 16 | #647 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 12 | #770 | 0.8× |
| Maryland | 12 | #446 | 0.6× |
Where Kenzie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Kenzie is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1918 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Kenzie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 27,644 babies since 1880, Kenzie is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 371 of their 496 babies (75%), again the most given.
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 Kenzie
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 Kenzie and names like it
- Compare Kenzie and KenziBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sKenzie peaked in 2014.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Kenzie since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Kenzie.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Kenzie alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with KMost given first.