Mckenzi
Mckenzi was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,447 among girls’ names; 2,022 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,000 Americans named Mckenzi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 15 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckenzi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mckenzi?
#16,447 among girls’ names, 2025
Mckenzi fell from #2,958 in 2015 to #16,447 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.1 to 3.1 per million.
95 babies in 1996, the peak
Mckenzi peaked in 1996, when 95 girls were given it, #1,620 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,447 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,993 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,878 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,927 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,807 | 7.3 |
| 2020 | 21 | #5,778 | 13.0 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,734 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,735 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,747 | 23.7 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,087 | 30.5 |
Every recorded year (46)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 59 | #2,958 | 33.1 |
| 2014 | 47 | #3,400 | 26.3 |
| 2013 | 73 | #2,478 | 41.6 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,756 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 73 | #2,502 | 41.5 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,509 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 67 | #2,720 | 36.5 |
| 2008 | 83 | #2,349 | 43.9 |
| 2007 | 84 | #2,305 | 43.7 |
| 2006 | 68 | #2,660 | 35.8 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,657 | 34.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,414 | 38.7 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,540 | 35.0 |
| 2002 | 65 | #2,456 | 36.2 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,914 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 81 | #2,041 | 44.6 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,928 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 64 | #2,229 | 36.2 |
| 1997 | 85 | #1,777 | 48.8 |
| 1996 | 95 | #1,620 | 54.2 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,201 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,391 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 62 | #2,161 | 34.3 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,183 | 19.5 |
| 1991 | 35 | #3,186 | 18.7 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,460 | 11.6 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,426 | 3.8 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,109 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,219 | 8.6 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,380 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,509 | 3.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,771 | 3.6 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,889 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,474 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,271 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,779 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckenzi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mckenzi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 46 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mckenzi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckenzi, and how old are they?
2,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,022 Americans ever recorded as Mckenzi. The median Mckenzi alive today is 22 years old; half are between 15 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,736 people named Mckenzi (1,711 women and girls, 25 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,945 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 14 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 423 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,170 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 392 |
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 Mckenzi born?
The states with the most babies named Mckenzi are Texas, Ohio and Georgia, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 170 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 58 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 44 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| California | 40 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Utah | 33 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 24 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Indiana | 18 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 8 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Mckenzi with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mckenzi?
Mckenzi is a less common spelling of Mckenzie: SSA has recorded 2,022 Mckenzi and 67,045 Mckenzie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,685 babies since 1880, Mckenzi is the second most given (2.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 533 babies (<1%), again the second 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 Mckenzi
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 Mckenzi and names like it
- Compare Mckenzi and MckenzieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMckenzi peaked in 1996.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mckenzi since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Mckenzi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mckenzi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.