NamelingSwipe names

Kenzie

Gender
Unisex
Say it
KEN-zee
Origin
Scottish
UK rank, 2025
#1,613 for boys
US rank, 2025
#736 for girls

Kenzie is a name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Coinneach, handsome”. In 2025 it ranked 1,613th for boys in the UK (17 babies) and 736th for girls in the US (371 babies).

What does Kenzie mean?

Scottish: short form of Mackenzie

“son of Coinneach, handsome”

Short form of Mackenzie, from the Scottish surname Mac Coinnich, son of Coinneach, the Gaelic name anglicised as Kenneth.

More on Wiktionary.

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

In recent years, Kenzie has been given to both girls and boys. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls and 17 boys in the UK and 371 girls in the US.

How popular is Kenzie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
1,613th among boys
Babies in 2025
17 about 1 in 18,000 boys
Five-year trend
Falling down 48% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 17 boys in the UK were named Kenzie, making it the 1,613th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,150th. Its busiest year was 2009, with 472 boys. 18 girls were also named Kenzie in 2025 (1,690th for girls).

Half of all the boys named Kenzie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 20 boys in the UK were given Kenzie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,242, up from #1,613 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 87% of the babies named Kenzie in the UK in 1998, and 51% in 2025.

Among boys in 2025, it was 1,537th in England and Wales.

1998Busiest: 472 in 20092025
Kenzie in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
202517#1,613
202417#1,585
202323#1,286
202221#1,364
202133#993
202026#1,150
201936#909
201848#767
201743#838
201670#594
201578#549
2014116#400
2013159#309
2012238#238
2011278#210
2010382#165
2009472#139
2008346#170
2007316#183
2006314#174
2005352#153
200430#807
200317#1,124
20027#1,900
20011#4,138
20002#3,980
19990–
19982#3,848

How popular is Kenzie in the US?

Rank in 2025
736th among girls
Babies in 2025
371 about 1 in 4,300 girls
Five-year trend
Falling down 46% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 371 girls in the US were named Kenzie, making it the 736th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 368th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 1,330 girls. It first appears in the records in 1970.

It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 5 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Kenzie than any year since 2001.

Half of all the girls named Kenzie in the US since 1880 were born between 2006 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 468 girls in the US were given Kenzie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #625, up from #736 for this spelling alone.

Girls were 70% of the babies named Kenzie in the US in 1979, and 99% in 2024.

1970Busiest: 1,330 in 20142025
Kenzie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025371#736
2024473#628
2023525#566
2022600#517
2021676#463
2020843#368
2019781#395
2018889#356
2017842#371
2016993#333
20151,145#275
20141,330#244
20131,242#257
20121,209#269
20111,025#309
2010863#370
2009700#449
2008669#475
2007652#496
2006531#554
2005501#571
2004425#644
2003403#658
2002386#654
2001311#767
2000345#687
1999324#695
1998314#704
1997254#814
1996244#824
1995191#980
1994225#868
1993151#1,162
1992177#1,040
1991147#1,180
1990118#1,343
198971#1,846
198870#1,786
198759#1,917
198656#1,951
198536#2,656
198425#3,328
198338#2,432
198239#2,451
198124#3,436
198021#3,718
197926#3,147
197816#4,242
197713#4,941
197611#5,213
19750–
19740–
19730–
19726#7,290
19710–
19705#7,994

Names like Kenzie

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

Other spellings of Kenzie

Names related to Kenzie

More Scottish names

Every Scottish name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Kenzie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/kenzie, updated 20 October 2026.