Makenzy
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KEN-zee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Makenzy is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Kenneth”. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Makenzy 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 Makenzy a girl's or a boy's name?
Makenzy is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Makenzy in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling fast down 63% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Makenzy, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,554th. Its busiest year was 2008, with 100 girls. It first appears in the records in 1991.
2025 had fewer girls named Makenzy than any year since 1991.
Half of all the girls named Makenzy 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 Makenzy or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #151, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Makenzy in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,164 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,554 |
| 2019 | 19 | #6,172 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,631 |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,429 |
| 2014 | 49 | #3,270 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,625 |
| 2012 | 59 | #2,900 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,298 |
| 2010 | 79 | #2,386 |
| 2009 | 81 | #2,374 |
| 2008 | 100 | #2,054 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,231 |
| 2006 | 76 | #2,438 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,576 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,367 |
| 2003 | 64 | #2,519 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,411 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,434 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,736 |
| 1999 | 46 | #2,893 |
| 1998 | 29 | #3,911 |
| 1997 | 33 | #3,445 |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,144 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,672 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,440 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,413 |
| 1992 | 7 | #10,471 |
| 1991 | 6 | #11,501 |
Nicknames for Makenzy
Names like Makenzy
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mckinley, Avery, Kennedy, Emely, Emery, Madison, Mallory, Dakota, Trinity, Lily, Miley, Harmony
Other spellings of Makenzy
Mackenzie, Mckenzie, Makenzie, Makenzi, Makenzee, Mackenzi, Mackenize, Mckenzi
Names related to Makenzy
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, “Makenzy: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/makenzy, updated 20 October 2026.