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Mckenzi vs Mckinzie

American parents have registered 2,022 Mckenzis since 1880, against 1,538 Mckinzies. Mckenzi is still ahead, with 5 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mckenzi against Mckinzie, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mckenzi Mckinzie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 48 years in which either name was published, Mckenzi for 38 years and Mckinzie for 10 years. The lead changed hands 15 times.

13 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

  Mckenzi Mckinzie
Total US births 2,0221,538
Most in one year 9584
Babies in 2025 5under 5
Estimated living today 2,0001,500
Median age today 2122
Peak year 19962006
Best rank 1,615th girls2,267th girls
Rank in 2025 14,942ndunranked
First recorded 19781978
Girls / boys 2,022 / 01,538 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mckenzi and Mckinzie.