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Kenzey

Gender
Girl
Say it
KEN-zee
Origin
Scottish

Kenzey is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “handsome one”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Kenzey mean?

Scottish: variant of Kenzie, short form of Mackenzie, from Gaelic Mac Coinnich

“handsome one”

Variant of Kenzie, a short form of Mackenzie, from the Gaelic Mac Coinnich meaning son of Coinneach.

Is Kenzey a girl's or a boy's name?

Kenzey is a girls' name.

How popular is Kenzey in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Kenzey in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.

1993Busiest: 15 in 20062020
Kenzey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20206#13,448
20195#15,532
201810#9,801
20176#14,120
20160–
20159#10,861
20140–
201312#9,031
201213#8,628
201112#9,146
201015#7,877
200913#8,884
20088#12,574
200711#10,125
200615#7,865
20055#16,455
20047#12,754
20037#12,401
20029#10,240
20018#11,013
20000–
19990–
19980–
19970–
19965#13,511
19955#13,380
19940–
19935#13,435

Names like Kenzey

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Kenzey

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Kenzey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kenzey, updated 20 October 2026.