Mckenzie
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Meaning
surname variant of Mackenzie, "son of Kenneth"
The story
Mckenzie is Mackenzie with the Mc- worn plain, son of Kenneth in the old Scottish reading, and the couple files under the law our records keep confirming: one sound, two spellings, rising and settling together. Mackenzie, the original, runs bigger, about 149,100 to 67,000, and both went to daughters: Mckenzie counts about 64,800 girls to 2,300 boys. The rise was a wave: about 460 in the 1970s, 2,500 in the 1980s, 16,200 in the 1990s, 22,900 in the 2000s, then 19,900 in the 2010s and 4,900 so far this decade. The 1990s and 2000s cohort is grown now, which is how a surname stops sounding borrowed and starts sounding like a colleague. A clan chief in the root, a schoolyard's worth of spellings, and the record keeping score for both.
Mckenzie's name family
One shared root links 4 names across 2 languages.
Shared root: from Scottish Gaelic Mac Coinnich "son of Coinneach", the name anglicized as Kenneth
The family
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How popular is Mckenzie around the world?
In the United States, 4,915 babies were named Mckenzie between 2020 and 2025.
Mckenzie is on the official records of the United States, South Australia, Canada and England and Wales.
United States
1 in 4,400
In the United States, 4,915 babies were named Mckenzie between 2020 and 2025.
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Mckenzie peaked in the 2000s and the 2010s in nearly equal measure. Mckenzie went to 2,152 US babies in 2015 and 528 in 2025, 25% of the earlier figure.
Births with a Social Security record. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration
South Australia
1 in 6,1002017
In South Australia, 3 girls were registered as Mckenzie in 2017.
The count never rose above 6 in a year, too few to chart.
Births registered in South Australia (not all of Australia) by first name and year of registration, 1944–2017, from the state’s Births, Deaths and Marriages registry, which publishes every name down to a single birth in capitals; a spelling its export repeats inside a year is counted once, and from 2018 only a top 100 is published, so the series ends at 2017. Source: Consumer and Business Services (South Australia), popular baby names
Canada
1 in 18,000
In Canada, 20 girls named Mckenzie were born in 2024, ranked 1,231st among girls that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
First given names from provincial and territorial vital statistics across Canada; any name-sex-year under 5 is excluded at source, and small Quebec counts carry a randomized adjustment made at source. Shares divide by Statistics Canada’s count of live births for the year; the 2024 count is preliminary. Source: Statistics Canada, first names at birth (table 17-10-0147-01)
England and Wales
1 in 19,000
In England and Wales, 25 boys named Mckenzie were born in 2025, ranked 1,153rd among boys that year.
share of that year’s name registrations
Birth registrations in England and Wales (not the whole UK); exact spellings are counted separately, and any spelling under 3 in a year is withheld at source. Source: Office for National Statistics, baby names in England and Wales
Argentina
last on record 2018
Mckenzie is not on the 2024 record for Argentina, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 2 in a year, too few to chart.
Given-name components of births in Argentina 2012–2024; national cells are lower bounds and no sex split is published. Source: RENAPER (Argentina), Dirección Nacional de Población, given names 2012-2024
Ireland
last on record 2021
Mckenzie is not on the 2025 record for Ireland, where names under 3 in a year are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 8 in a year, too few to chart.
Exact registered spellings from Irish vital statistics; any name under 3 in a year is withheld at source, and accented spellings (fadas) are recorded reliably only from 2018. Source: Central Statistics Office (Ireland), Irish babies' names
Mexico City City
last on record 2021
Mckenzie is not on the 2022 record for Mexico City, where small counts are withheld at source.
The count never rose above 3 in a year, too few to chart.
Civil-registry acts in Mexico City by registration year. Counts are lower bounds (names under 6 in a month and borough are removed at source) and count name-instances, not people; compound names are split, so “Maria Jose” counts under each part. 2023, a partial extract through 3 Mar with no cell on record for this name, is excluded. Source: Registro Civil of Mexico City, open data portal, registered given names 2000-2023
Scotland
last on record 2021
Mckenzie is not on the 2024 record for Scotland, where spellings under 3 in total are suppressed at source.
share of that year’s name registrations
Births registered in Scotland; different spellings count separately but accents are merged at source, and any spelling under 3 in total is suppressed. Source: National Records of Scotland, babies' first names
Not on the record in Spain, Puerto Rico and Poland: those registries withhold small counts, so rare uses may sit below their floors.
Not on the Chile record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 5 registrations in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Montevideo record for 1940 to 2011: that registry withholds nothing, so this spelling was not given there in those years. Not on the France record: nametree keeps spellings that reached 20 births in some year, so rarer uses are not shown. Not on the Austria record for 1984 to 2025: Statistik Austria publishes every first name down to a single birth, so this name was not given there in those years (before 2010 the record covers babies with Austrian citizenship only). Not on Norway’s list: Statistics Norway lists only first names carried by 200 or more living people, so rarer names are not shown.
When you meet Mckenzie
Most people given the name Mckenzie in the United States are teenagers or young adults today.
Estimated from US Social Security birth registrations and typical lifespans; a rough guide, not a rule.
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