Makenzi
Makenzi was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,466 among girls’ names; 3,631 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,590 Americans named Makenzi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 14 and 25.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makenzi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makenzi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Makenzi is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of MacKenzie.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makenzi?
#6,466 among girls’ names, 2025
Makenzi fell from #1,788 in 2015 to #6,466 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 65.5 to 11.2 per million.
238 babies in 2008, the peak
Makenzi peaked in 2008, when 238 girls were given it, #1,093 among girls’ names. The 18 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,466 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,090 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 39 | #3,882 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 42 | #3,687 | 0.03 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,980 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,530 | 0.03 |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,774 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,602 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,649 | 0.04 |
| 2016 | 97 | #2,048 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 117 | #1,788 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 144 | #1,523 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 135 | #1,592 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 137 | #1,587 | 0.08 |
| 2011 | 183 | #1,290 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 148 | #1,517 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 175 | #1,362 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 238 | #1,093 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,642 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 162 | #1,402 | 0.09 |
| 2005 | 145 | #1,464 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,475 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 149 | #1,360 | 0.08 |
| 2002 | 115 | #1,617 | 0.06 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,484 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 138 | #1,359 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 121 | #1,445 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 121 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 99 | #1,609 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 81 | #1,817 | 0.05 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,992 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,363 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,362 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,850 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,678 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 23 | #4,320 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,784 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,114 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,482 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,722 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makenzi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makenzi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makenzi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makenzi, and how old are they?
3,590 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,631 Americans ever recorded as Makenzi. The median Makenzi alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 25.
The 2020 Census counted 2,891 people named Makenzi (2,877 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,397 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 390 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,310 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 896 |
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 Makenzi born?
The states with the most babies named Makenzi are Texas, Ohio and Florida, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 354 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 134 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 121 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 119 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 105 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Louisiana | 88 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Michigan | 87 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Oklahoma | 86 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Indiana | 83 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 82 | not ranked | 1.0× |
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 Makenzi 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 204,706 babies since 1880, Makenzi is the third most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 1,885 babies (<1%), again the third 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 Makenzi
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 Makenzi and names like it
- Compare Makenzi and MackenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakenzi peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makenzi since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Makenzi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Makenzi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makenzi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.