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Mackinzie

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KIN-zee
Origin
Scottish

Mackinzie is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Coinneach”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Mackinzie mean?

Scottish: spelling of Makinzie, itself a variant of Mackenzie, from Gaelic MacCoinnich

“son of Coinneach”

Meaning borrowed from Makinzie.

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

Mackinzie is a girls' name.

How popular is Mackinzie in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2003, with 50 girls. It first appears in the records in 1981.

Half of all the girls named Mackinzie in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.

1981Busiest: 50 in 20032022
Mackinzie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20226#13,586
20210–
20200–
20190–
20185#15,677
201710#9,939
20166#14,326
201516#7,263
201418#6,711
201323#5,642
201218#6,868
201130#4,680
201028#4,972
200932#4,570
200834#4,447
200734#4,379
200631#4,575
200546#3,313
200448#3,176
200350#2,996
200245#3,142
200139#3,413
200047#2,970
199949#2,779
199822#4,793
199728#3,894
199634#3,356
199520#4,841
199430#3,610
199316#5,667
199222#4,521
199111#7,423
199010#7,874
19896#10,841
19885#11,792
19870–
19860–
19850–
19840–
19830–
19820–
19815#10,409

Nicknames for Mackinzie

Names like Mackinzie

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