Makenzee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KEN-zee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Makenzee is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Kenneth”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Makenzee mean?
Scottish: spelling of Mackenzie; Gaelic surname MacCoinnich
“son of Kenneth”
From the Scottish surname MacCoinnich, son of Coinneach (Kenneth); the z stands for an old letter, yogh, once sounded like y.
Meaning borrowed from Mackenzie. More on Wiktionary.
Is Makenzee a girl's or a boy's name?
Makenzee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makenzee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Makenzee, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 77 girls. It first appears in the records in 1992.
Half of all the girls named Makenzee in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2012, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,313 girls in the US were given Makenzee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #151, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Makenzee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,608 |
| 2018 | 14 | #7,758 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 27 | #4,989 |
| 2015 | 27 | #4,979 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,023 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,313 |
| 2012 | 77 | #2,401 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,944 |
| 2010 | 43 | #3,623 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,459 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,858 |
| 2007 | 48 | #3,428 |
| 2006 | 37 | #3,991 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,077 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,387 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,343 |
| 2002 | 53 | #2,815 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,413 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,659 |
| 1999 | 29 | #3,966 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,363 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,656 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,275 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,434 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,091 |
| 1993 | 9 | #8,712 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
Nicknames for Makenzee
Names like Makenzee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckinley, Madison, Miracle, Madisson, Addison, Madilyn, Emerson, Camryn, Chloe, Monroe, Zoe, Maylee
Other spellings of Makenzee
Mackenzie, Mckenzie, Makenzie, Makenzi, Makenzy, Mackenzi, Mackenize, Mckenzi
Names related to Makenzee
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox
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, “Makenzee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makenzee, updated 20 October 2026.