Mackenzie
Mackenzie was given to 1,343 girls in 2025, #228 among girls’ names; 149,135 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 147,000 Americans named Mackenzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mackenzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mackenzie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mackenzie is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of 1970s and later usage, also in the form Makenzie.”
Spelling pronunciation of Scots MacKenȝie with the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ confused with ⟨z⟩. Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, itself from mac (“son, descendant”) + Coinnich (“of Coinneach”).
/məˈkɛn.zi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mackenzie?
#228 among girls’ names, 2025
Mackenzie fell from #73 in 2015 to #228 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 2.2 to 0.84 per 1,000.
7,105 babies in 2001, the peak
Mackenzie peaked in 2001, when 7,105 babies were given it (6,934 girls, #40 among girls’ names). The 1,442 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,343 | #228 | 0.84 |
| 2024 | 1,524 | #200 | 0.94 |
| 2023 | 1,744 | #167 | 1.1 |
| 2022 | 2,036 | #142 | 1.2 |
| 2021 | 2,277 | #123 | 1.4 |
| 2020 | 2,297 | #119 | 1.4 |
| 2019 | 2,591 | #111 | 1.5 |
| 2018 | 2,827 | #106 | 1.7 |
| 2017 | 2,962 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 2016 | 3,410 | #85 | 1.9 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 3,869 | #73 | 2.2 |
| 2014 | 4,160 | #69 | 2.3 |
| 2013 | 4,024 | #62 | 2.3 |
| 2012 | 3,764 | #71 | 2.1 |
| 2011 | 3,799 | #68 | 2.2 |
| 2010 | 3,883 | #68 | 2.2 |
| 2009 | 3,902 | #77 | 2.1 |
| 2008 | 4,474 | #65 | 2.4 |
| 2007 | 4,628 | #65 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5,205 | #53 | 2.7 |
| 2005 | 5,199 | #51 | 2.8 |
| 2004 | 5,728 | #45 | 3.1 |
| 2003 | 5,865 | #45 | 3.2 |
| 2002 | 6,268 | #42 | 3.5 |
| 2001 | 6,934 | #40 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 6,350 | #43 | 3.5 |
| 1999 | 5,426 | #52 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 4,890 | #64 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 4,491 | #71 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 4,597 | #75 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 3,963 | #88 | 2.3 |
| 1994 | 3,196 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 1993 | 2,897 | #113 | 1.6 |
| 1992 | 2,673 | #126 | 1.4 |
| 1991 | 1,494 | #199 | 0.80 |
| 1990 | 1,151 | #247 | 0.61 |
| 1989 | 855 | #307 | 0.46 |
| 1988 | 774 | #322 | 0.43 |
| 1987 | 711 | #341 | 0.41 |
| 1986 | 490 | #439 | 0.29 |
| 1985 | 433 | #482 | 0.25 |
| 1984 | 337 | #555 | 0.20 |
| 1983 | 271 | #636 | 0.16 |
| 1982 | 254 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1981 | 240 | #703 | 0.14 |
| 1980 | 232 | #722 | 0.14 |
| 1979 | 179 | #868 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 229 | #694 | 0.15 |
| 1977 | 237 | #666 | 0.15 |
| 1976 | 165 | #838 | 0.11 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,475 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,287 | under 0.01 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,001 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mackenzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 149,135 Americans recorded as Mackenzie, 95% are girls and 5% boys. In 2025 it went to 1,343 girls and 99 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mackenzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mackenzie, and how old are they?
147,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 149,135 Americans ever recorded as Mackenzie. The median Mackenzie alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 125,027 people named Mackenzie (118,907 women and girls, 6,120 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 136,575 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,220 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 28,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 81,900 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35,500 |
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 Mackenzie born?
The states with the most babies named Mackenzie are California, New York and Texas, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 127 | #271 | 0.5× |
| New York | 124 | #139 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 95 | #381 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 81 | #266 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 80 | #149 | 1.3× |
| New Jersey | 72 | #101 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 61 | #178 | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 60 | #185 | 1.4× |
| Virginia | 54 | #144 | 1.1× |
| Massachusetts | 47 | #113 | 1.1× |
Where Mackenzie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mackenzie is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1973 it was given 1.4 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 Mackenzie 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 204,098 babies since 1880, Mackenzie is the most given (73% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,442 of their 1,885 babies (76%), 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 Mackenzie
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 Mackenzie and names like it
- Compare Mackenzie and MakenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMackenzie peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mackenzie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Mackenzie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Mackenzie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mackenzie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.