Makenzi

Where Makenzi comes from

The dictionaries list Makenzi as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, 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. 1984
    First appearance
    #8,153 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2008
    Peak, #1,090
    238 babies named Makenzi — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2015
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,778.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of MacKenzie.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Makenzi hasn't yet.

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.