girls:
1.1k births since 1987
#4638 (19th percentile)
boys:
119 births since 1986
#4467 (3rd percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1986
#6543 (15th percentile)
The name Mackenzy is the #6,543 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,197 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,638 (18.8% percentile) for all time with 1,078 births since 1987. For boys, it ranks #4,467 (2.5% percentile) for all time with 119 births since 1986.
Mackenzy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for boys and 1987 for girls). Birth data for Mackenzy is available in 37 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (35 years for girls and 14 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 Mackenzy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.1% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1992, the name was more popular for boys (57.4% boys from 1986 to 1991), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (92.3% girls from 1992 to 2023).
For girls, Mackenzy reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 7.4% percentile (ranked #832) with 36 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 36 births per million (ranked 7.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mackenzy ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 8.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mackenzy reached its peak popularity in 1995, achieving the 1.3% percentile (ranked #790) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mackenzy".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Mackenzy. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 36.8% confident that Mackenzy is pronounced as muh-KEHN-zee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MA-kuhn-zee, at 21.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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