# McKenzie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mckenzie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 67,045 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,266 / 64,779 (97% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,413, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 2,246 | 136 |
| 2012 | 2,122 | 151 |
| 2013 | 2,219 | 140 |
| 2014 | 2,322 | 145 |
| 2015 | 2,140 | 151 |
| 2016 | 1,999 | 156 |
| 2017 | 1,661 | 186 |
| 2018 | 1,521 | 203 |
| 2019 | 1,325 | 236 |
| 2020 | 1,136 | 279 |
| 2021 | 991 | 331 |
| 2022 | 885 | 357 |
| 2023 | 710 | 437 |
| 2024 | 622 | 494 |
| 2025 | 517 | 576 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 26 | 3,960 |
| 2012 | 19 | 4,974 |
| 2013 | 22 | 4,414 |
| 2014 | 26 | 3,977 |
| 2015 | 12 | 6,943 |
| 2016 | 17 | 5,467 |
| 2017 | 20 | 4,873 |
| 2018 | 17 | 5,461 |
| 2019 | 14 | 6,305 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,227 |
| 2021 | 7 | 10,414 |
| 2022 | 9 | 8,752 |
| 2023 | 7 | 10,415 |
| 2024 | 13 | 6,696 |
| 2025 | 11 | 7,506 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 1,149 |
| 2012 | 30 | 1,130 |
| 2013 | 16 | 1,774 |
| 2014 | 15 | 1,882 |
| 2015 | 15 | 1,865 |
| 2016 | 8 | 2,966 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2018 | 10 | 2,499 |
| 2019 | 13 | 2,040 |
| 2020 | 18 | 1,618 |
| 2021 | 14 | 1,962 |
| 2022 | 5 | 3,970 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,346 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 6 | 3,705 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 314 | 177 |
| 2012 | 263 | 209 |
| 2013 | 163 | 284 |
| 2014 | 149 | 308 |
| 2015 | 91 | 445 |
| 2016 | 90 | 452 |
| 2017 | 59 | 613 |
| 2018 | 54 | 646 |
| 2019 | 48 | 694 |
| 2020 | 49 | 690 |
| 2021 | 50 | 695 |
| 2022 | 41 | 784 |
| 2023 | 25 | 1,139 |
| 2024 | 22 | 1,235 |
| 2025 | 25 | 1,153 |

## People named McKenzie

- Ben McKenzie, American actor (born 1978)
- McKenzie Lee, British pornographic actress
- McKenzie Wark, Australia-born writer and scholar (born 1961)
- McKenzie Adams, American volleyball player
- McKenzie Moore, American basketball player (born 1992)
- Flora Robson, English actress (1902-1984)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.