Makenzie

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Makenzie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Makenzie: Recorded since 1996, it reached #329 in 2009, and it was last ranked in 2017.

3registrars recorded it
45times a registrar ranked it
22years from first to last
#329highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2016

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2738
1998	#2407
2000	#1831
2001	#1305
2002	#1442
2003	#1083
2004	#1106
2005	#1045
2006	#1325
2007	#1965
2008	#2487
2009	#3031
2010	#4688
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2014	#4684
2016	#5785

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 18 of the 20 years from 1996 to 2015.

In 2014: #876 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4684 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1765 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #734 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2017.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Makenzie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 247 births with the name.

Makenzie across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Makenzie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#691 (2005)	#3908 (2015)	18 of 20	247 (1996–2015)	37 (2005)
England and Wales · Girls	#2738 (1997)	#1045 (2005)	#5785 (2016)	17 of 20	181 (1997–2016)	24 (2005)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#677 (2004)	#677 (2004)	#734 (2017)	8 of 14	26 (2004–2017)	4 (2012)

Makenzie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Makenzie in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	13	3 of 10	4
2000sbusiest	205	10 of 10	21
2010s	29	5 of 10	6

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 21 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Makenzie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #329 in Northern Ireland in 2009.

Makenzie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#3908	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#2964	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2400	8	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#3031	7	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#972	27	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2487	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#943	28	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1965	12	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#799	33	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1325	19	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#814	31	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1045	24	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#691	37	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1106	21	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#970	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1083	21	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1132	15	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1442	13	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1305	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#2587	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1831	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2425	4	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2901	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#329	4	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#876	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#768	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#910	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#862	3	High	Verified
2007	Republic of Ireland	female	#842	3	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	female	#677	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2017, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #329, first reached in 2009.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 37 births, registered in England and Wales in 2005.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 8 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Makayla · #73, 30y
Makeda · #1319, 25y
Maks · #710, 19y
Maksim · #291, 24y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Aayan · #328, 21y
Andris · #328, 25y
Armandas · #328, 19y
Arnas · #328, 21y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Eliot · #329, 29y
Jaydan · #329, 28y
Vaughn · #329, 28y
Zakk · #329, 29y

Makenzie was ranked #329 in Northern Ireland · Boys in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Makenzie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Makenzie without appearing here.

Makenzie moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2587 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #970 and #3009.
Arne Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2587 and #2587 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1132 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #2636 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1132 and #2857.
Madison Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4805 and #3987 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #2964 and #4632.

Moved ahead of Makenzie

Meabh Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #4684 and #2314.
Linnea Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3031 and #3422 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #4688 and #2392.
Nils Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2390 and #2892 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2012 that had become #4805 and #2721.
Josefine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4838 and #5876 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #4096.

Moved the opposite way to Makenzie

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Makenzie went from #2738 to #5785 while Ada went from #1543 to #164.
Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Makenzie went from #1765 to #3908 while Albie went from #853 to #107.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Makenzie went from #1765 to #3908 while Alfie went from #119 to #14.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Makenzie went from #1765 to #3908 while Alfred went from #218 to #114.

Moved the same way as Makenzie

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Makenzie went from #1765 to #3908 and Aaron from #33 to #87.
Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Makenzie went from #2738 to #5785 and Abigail from #24 to #58.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2015 in England and Wales · Boys, Makenzie went from #1765 to #3908 and Adam from #16 to #38.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2016 in England and Wales · Girls, Makenzie went from #2738 to #5785 and Aimee from #61 to #400.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #329 in Northern Ireland in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Makenzie

Makenzie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Makenzie across 3 official records

Makenzie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Makenzie at a glance

Makenzie across 3 official records

Makenzie by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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