Makenzy
Makenzy was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,283 among girls’ names; 1,476 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Makenzy 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 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makenzy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makenzy mean?
Wiktionary, French section
Makenzy is “a male given name from Haitian Creole”
Borrowed from Haitian Creole.
/ma.kɛn.zi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, French section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makenzy?
#14,283 among girls’ names, 2025
Makenzy fell from #3,461 in 2015 to #14,283 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 3.7 per million.
100 babies in 2008, the peak
Makenzy peaked in 2008, when 100 girls were given it, #2,057 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,283 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,755 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,798 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,900 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,873 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,807 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,324 | 11.3 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,950 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,985 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,695 | 16.9 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,461 | 25.8 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,302 | 27.4 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,649 | 38.2 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,925 | 33.5 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,316 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,397 | 44.4 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,387 | 44.1 |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,057 | 52.9 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,240 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,452 | 40.0 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,590 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,379 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,539 | 35.0 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,434 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,446 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,761 | 29.2 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,916 | 25.9 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,986 | 16.4 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,502 | 19.0 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,193 | 21.1 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,774 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,592 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,582 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,202 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,456 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makenzy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makenzy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makenzy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makenzy, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,476 Americans ever recorded as Makenzy. The median Makenzy alive today is 19 years old; half are between 14 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,256 people named Makenzy (1,212 women and girls, 44 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,409 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 103 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 312 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 55,126 babies since 1880, Makenzy is the fourth most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 443 babies (1.4%), the fifth 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 Makenzy
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 Makenzy and names like it
- Compare Makenzy and MakenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMakenzy peaked in 2008.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makenzy since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Makenzy.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Makenzy alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.