Girl · Scottish Gaelic
Mckenzie
Say it: muh-KEN-zee
Meaning
A spelling of Mackenzie, from the Scottish surname MacCoinnich 'son of Coinneach' ('handsome, comely').
Likelythe main view, with some doubt.
Popular in the US in the 1990s and 2000s.
Its wave through time
Popular now
In the United States
- 63,205 babies given this name since 1917
- At its height in 2000, about 1 in 719 girls
- 1,130 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mackenzie, Makenzie
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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