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Mackynzie

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KIN-zee
Origin
Scottish

Mackynzie 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 Mackynzie mean?

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

“son of Coinneach”

Meaning borrowed from Makynzie.

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

Mackynzie is a girls' name.

How popular is Mackynzie in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2010, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Mackynzie in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 44 in 20102021
Mackynzie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20218#11,141
20209#10,245
201915#7,338
20189#10,540
20179#10,685
201612#8,872
201534#4,231
201427#5,023
201323#5,642
201228#4,955
201141#3,722
201044#3,571
200918#7,063
200815#8,105
20077#13,918
20069#11,412
200514#7,886
20047#12,754
200311#9,043
20029#10,240
200113#7,717
20009#9,867
19990–
19986#12,420
19976#12,065

Nicknames for Mackynzie

Names like Mackynzie

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