Kenzie

What Kenzie means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Kenzie yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #736 vs #1,892 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Kenzie?

US: Falling: down from #275 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1007 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2014, when 1,330 girls got the name (#244 that year). First in the US records in 1970.

How common

• About 1 in 4,332 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 16,885 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in SD (1.64 per 1,000 girls), MD (0.6 per 1,000 girls), MI (0.5 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Kenzie is #736 in the US and #1892 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Kenzie were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Kinzie25 US
• Kensie19 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Kenzie

Girls

• Zoey#69Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1967, with 6 babies
• Aubrey#146“elf, fairy + king, ruler”^*
• Brooklyn#118“wetland, marsh”^*
• Alaina#224Form of Elon, meaning “oak tree”^*
• Khloe#272Variant of Chloe, meaning “young green shoot”^*
• Harmony#276From the word “harmony”^*

For a brother

• Mason#39From a surname for “a stonemason”^*
• Eli#104“ascent”^*
• Jaxon#115Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #44 in 2015, #115 in 2025
• Bryson#152Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #152 vs #1,066 in 2025
• Braxton#172Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #172 vs #2,014 in 2025
• Jace#114Diminutive of Jason, meaning “I heal”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Kenzie’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.