Mckenzie

What Mckenzie means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mckenzie?

US: Falling: down from #151 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #1865 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2000, when 2,528 girls got the name (#133 that year). First in the US records in 1975.

How common

• About 1 in 3,109 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 42,214 baby girls in England and Wales 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 MS (1.57 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.98 per 1,000 girls), ID (0.84 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Mckenzie is #576 in the US and #3705 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.9% of US babies named Mckenzie were girls.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Makenzi18 US
• Makenzee7 US
• Mackenzi6 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 Mckenzie

Girls

• Kaylee#255Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #61 in 2015, #255 in 2025
• Bailey#208“outer castle wall”^*
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Macy#718Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,483 babies; 390 in 2025
• Kendall#328“spring + valley”^*
• Clare#924“bright, shining, clear”^*

For a brother

• Hunter#130From the word “hunter”^*
• Conner#864Variant of Connor, meaning “lover of hounds”^*
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*
• Grant#228“big, large”^*
• Gage#973Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 2,939 babies; 235 in 2025
• Drake#827“dragon”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mckenzie’s. Rank is US 2025.