How rare is the name Makenzie?

35,977 people in the United States have the first name Makenzie, about 1 in 8,395. It ranks #1,129 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MAKENZIE

#1,129

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
35,977
About
1 in 8,395
This common or more
71.7%
Who bears it

Of the 35,977 people named Makenzie, 74.2% reported their origin as White, 13.2% as Black and 5.7% as Hispanic or Latino. 99.3% are female. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Makenzie peaked in 2011, when 2,218 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19752025
Peak year
2011
Births that year
2,218
In 2025*
406 ▼82%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 45,324 babies have been given the name since 1975. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Makenzie by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2000s, when it ranked #403. The largest share of babies named Makenzie, 60.8%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.

1970s#9,52878
1980s#3,164561
1990s#7197,398
2000s#40317,565
2010s#44616,030
2020s#1,0043,692
Generation X 1965–800.2%
Millennials 1981–969.5%
Generation Z 1997–1260.8%
2013 and later29.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Makenzie is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Makenzie has been most common in Utah (2.1×), Nevada (1.9×), and Tennessee (1.7×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.22×).

43,688 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Makenzie

#1,127 Sasha · 36,127#1,128 Esperanza · 36,013#1,130 Chester · 35,868#1,131 Shari · 35,862

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Makenzie, most common first.

#452 Mackenzie · 125,027#5,763 Makenzi · 2,891#7,992 Mackenzi · 1,844#10,549 Makenzy · 1,256#13,303 Mackensie · 912#14,579 Makenzee · 807#14,586 Mackinzie · 806#15,796 Makinzie · 723

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