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Mackenize

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KEN-zee
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Mackenize is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Coinneach”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Mackenize mean?

Scottish: respelling of Mackenzie, from Gaelic MacCoinnich

“son of Coinneach”

Variant spelling of Mackenzie, an Anglicised Scottish surname meaning son of Coinneach, the Gaelic name usually rendered Kenneth.

Is Mackenize a girl's or a boy's name?

Mackenize is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mackenize in the US?

Rank in 2025
#14,937among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Mackenize, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2000, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

Half of all the girls named Mackenize in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 2,313 girls in the US were given Mackenize or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #151, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 25 in 20002025
Mackenize in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
20240–
20230–
20226#13,586
20210–
20200–
20197#12,442
20186#13,788
20175#15,898
20166#14,326
201512#8,926
201410#10,124
20139#10,995
20128#12,193
201113#8,610
201012#9,227
200910#10,675
200812#9,472
200714#8,516
200615#7,865
200515#7,495
200411#9,259
200325#4,938
200221#5,440
200122#5,169
200025#4,644
199917#5,890
19986#12,420
199717#5,622
19967#10,562
19956#11,778
199411#7,598
19935#13,435

Nicknames for Mackenize

Names like Mackenize

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Mackenize

More Scottish names

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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, “Mackenize: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mackenize, updated 20 October 2026.