girls:
63.6k births since 1975
#501 (91st percentile)
boys:
2.2k births since 1917
#2664 (42nd percentile)
overall:
65.9k births since 1917
#904 (88th percentile)
The name Mckenzie is the #904 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 65,857 recorded births since 1917. This represents the 88.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 88.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #501 (91.2% percentile) for all time with 63,615 births since 1975. For boys, it ranks #2,664 (41.9% percentile) for all time with 2,242 births since 1917.
Mckenzie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1917 (1917 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Mckenzie is available in 75 out of the 107 years between 1917 and 2023 (75 years for boys and 49 years for girls). 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 Mckenzie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.6% of all recorded births being female. Interestingly, until around 1976, the name was more popular for boys (96.7% boys from 1917 to 1975), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (96.9% girls from 1976 to 2023).
For girls, Mckenzie reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 85.7% percentile (ranked #135) with 1,159 births per million. The name was most common in 2000, with 1,266 births per million (ranked 85.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2015, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mckenzie ranks #399 for girls (57.9% percentile) with 404 births per million, which is 31.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mckenzie reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 14.8% percentile (ranked #663) with 60 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 60 births per million (ranked 14.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mckenzie ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 6.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mckenzie".
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Our model is 83.0% confident that Mckenzie is pronounced as muh-KEHN-zee, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KEHN-see, at 8.5% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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