Mckenzie
Mckenzie was given to 517 girls in 2025, #576 among girls’ names; 67,045 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 66,100 Americans named Mckenzie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckenzie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mckenzie mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mckenzie is “a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of MacKenzie.”
Also “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
Rare spelling variant of the surname MacKenzie.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mckenzie?
#576 among girls’ names, 2025
Mckenzie fell from #151 in 2015 to #576 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.2 to 0.32 per 1,000.
2,586 babies in 2000, the peak
Mckenzie peaked in 2000, when 2,586 babies were given it (2,528 girls, #133 among girls’ names). The 528 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 517 | #576 | 0.32 |
| 2024 | 622 | #494 | 0.38 |
| 2023 | 710 | #437 | 0.44 |
| 2022 | 885 | #357 | 0.54 |
| 2021 | 991 | #331 | 0.60 |
| 2020 | 1,136 | #279 | 0.70 |
| 2019 | 1,325 | #236 | 0.79 |
| 2018 | 1,521 | #203 | 0.89 |
| 2017 | 1,661 | #186 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,999 | #156 | 1.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,140 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2014 | 2,322 | #145 | 1.3 |
| 2013 | 2,219 | #140 | 1.3 |
| 2012 | 2,122 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2011 | 2,246 | #136 | 1.3 |
| 2010 | 2,133 | #145 | 1.2 |
| 2009 | 2,066 | #155 | 1.1 |
| 2008 | 2,288 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2007 | 2,233 | #160 | 1.2 |
| 2006 | 2,129 | #166 | 1.1 |
| 2005 | 2,078 | #163 | 1.1 |
| 2004 | 2,184 | #151 | 1.2 |
| 2003 | 2,251 | #149 | 1.2 |
| 2002 | 2,341 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 2001 | 2,471 | #135 | 1.4 |
| 2000 | 2,528 | #133 | 1.4 |
| 1999 | 2,284 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 1998 | 2,243 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 1997 | 2,068 | #150 | 1.2 |
| 1996 | 1,978 | #158 | 1.1 |
| 1995 | 1,808 | #165 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 1,541 | #192 | 0.86 |
| 1993 | 1,240 | #225 | 0.69 |
| 1992 | 950 | #290 | 0.52 |
| 1991 | 677 | #379 | 0.36 |
| 1990 | 497 | #489 | 0.26 |
| 1989 | 372 | #588 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 351 | #582 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 305 | #628 | 0.18 |
| 1986 | 228 | #761 | 0.13 |
| 1985 | 183 | #877 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 158 | #932 | 0.09 |
| 1983 | 133 | #1,046 | 0.08 |
| 1982 | 113 | #1,202 | 0.07 |
| 1981 | 120 | #1,142 | 0.07 |
| 1980 | 79 | #1,512 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 102 | #1,255 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 105 | #1,200 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 82 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 39 | #2,198 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,007 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckenzie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 67,045 Americans recorded as Mckenzie, 97% are girls and 3% boys. In 2025 it went to 517 girls and 11 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mckenzie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckenzie, and how old are they?
66,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 67,045 Americans ever recorded as Mckenzie. The median Mckenzie alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 56,889 people named Mckenzie (55,094 women and girls, 1,795 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61,717 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 48 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 557 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 36,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 18,100 |
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 Mckenzie born?
The states with the most babies named Mckenzie are California, Texas and Georgia, with 24% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 44 | #711 | 0.4× |
| Texas | 40 | #757 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 33 | #332 | 1.4× |
| New York | 27 | #620 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 26 | #436 | 1.3× |
| Florida | 24 | #706 | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #507 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 19 | #452 | 0.9× |
| Tennessee | 18 | #446 | 1.5× |
| South Carolina | 18 | #284 | 1.7× |
Where Mckenzie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mckenzie is most over-represented in Oregon: since 1917 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Mckenzie 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 74,044 babies since 1880, Mckenzie is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 528 of their 533 babies (99%), again the 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 Mckenzie
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 Mckenzie and names like it
- Compare Mckenzie and MckenziBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMckenzie peaked in 2000.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mckenzie since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Mckenzie: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Mckenzie.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mckenzie alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.