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Girl · Scottish Gaelic
Makenzie Say it: muh-KEN-zee
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Meaning From the Scottish surname Mackenzie, Gaelic MacCoinnich 'son of Coinneach'; Coinneach (Kenneth) is usually linked with caoin 'comely, fair'.
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Mackenzie became a girls' name in the US after the actress Mackenzie Phillips in the 1970s; this spelling followed.
Its wave through time Most used in the 2010s
In the United States 0 0.5 1 1.5 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 Peak 2011 per 1,000 babies of that sex 42,494 babies given this name since 1975 At its height in 2011, about 1 in 796 girls 895 babies in 2020 The family of the name Other spellings: Mackenzie, McKenzie, Mckenzie
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Meanings and histories are drawn from the study of names and their languages, each with a confidence rating; popularity figures come from official birth records. Name histories are a living field: if you know of a correction, we would be glad to hear it.