Makenzie

Where Makenzie comes from

The dictionaries list Makenzie as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and later usage, variant of MacKenzie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1975
    First appearance
    #9,067 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Makenzie Vega born
    American actress
  3. 1997
    Makenzie Fischer born
    American water polo player
  4. 2011
    Peak, #139
    2,210 babies named Makenzie — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #295.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of 1990s and later usage, variant of MacKenzie.
Namesakes
  • Makenzie Vega · American actress, born 1994
  • Makenzie Fischer · American water polo player, born 1997
  • Makenzie Leigh · actor, born 1990
  • Makenzie Kirk · Northern Irish association football player, born 2004

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.