Mckensie — girls' name
768 babies named Mckensie in U.S. Social Security records since 1981, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
42% of everyone ever named Mckensie was born in this single decade.
48 babies were named Mckensie in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mckensie
The Social Security Administration has registered 768 babies named Mckensie between 1981 and 2023, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mckensie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 48 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mckensie performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 325 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mckensie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Mckensie in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mckensie in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 768 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mckensie at a glance
Last recorded 2023Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mckensie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2023–1981
- Peak year (1997)
- 48
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2023.
768 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 48 births in a single year.
Mckensie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 325 births that decade — 42% of Mckensie's all-time total
Mckensie decade highlights
- Peak decade 325 births
- Runner-up 243 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Mckensie's strongest decade
325 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 42% of all-time use.
Mckensie by state
Where Mckensie concentrates geographically — total births since 1981
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 1.3% |
| #2 | Utah | | 10 | 1.3% |
| #3 | North Carolina | | 5 | 0.7% |
| #4 | Washington | | 5 | 0.7% |
10 of 768 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 4 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.3% of nationwide
- Utah 1.3% of nationwide
- North Carolina 0.7% of nationwide
- Washington 0.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 4 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1981–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.