Makenze
Makenze was last recorded in 2012, when 8 babies were given it; 187 Americans have been recorded with it between 1994 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makenze by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Makenze?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,963, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 2000, the peak
Makenze peaked in 2000, when 17 girls were given it, #6,371 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 8 | #12,963 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,963 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,214 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,394 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,515 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,432 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,072 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,633 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,396 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,975 | 4.4 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 7 | #13,079 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,574 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,371 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,370 | 9.0 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,374 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,499 | 5.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,143 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makenze a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makenze has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 17 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makenze: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makenze, and how old are they?
An estimated 185 Americans named Makenze and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 236 people named Makenze (227 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 185 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Makenze rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 204,007 babies since 1880, Makenze is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,885 babies recorded by SSA was a Makenze (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Makenze
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 Makenze and names like it
- Compare Makenze and MackenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakenze peaked in 2000.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Makenze.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makenze alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.