girls:
903 births since 1978
#4813 (16th percentile)
boys:
5 births since 1993
#4581 (0th percentile)
overall:
908 births since 1978
#6831 (12th percentile)
The name Mackensie is the #6,831 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 908 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 11.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,813 (15.8% percentile) for all time with 903 births since 1978. For boys, it ranks #4,581 (0.0% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1993.
Mackensie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for girls and 1993 for boys). Birth data for Mackensie is available in 40 out of the 44 years between 1978 and 2021 (40 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mackensie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.4% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mackensie reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #817) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
For boys, Mackensie reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #769) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mackensie".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Mackensie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.7% confident that Mackensie is pronounced as muh-KEHN-zee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KEHN-see, at 23.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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