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Mckenzy

Gender
Girl
Say it
ma-KEN-zee
Origin
Scottish

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

What does Mckenzy mean?

Scottish: spelling of Mckenzie, itself a spelling of Mackenzie

“son of Kenneth”

Spelling of Mackenzie, from the Scottish surname MacCoinnich, son of Coinneach (Kenneth).

Meaning borrowed from Mckenzie. More on Wiktionary.

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

Mckenzy is a girls' name.

How popular is Mckenzy in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2000, with 56 girls. It first appears in the records in 1987.

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

1987Busiest: 56 in 20002021
Mckenzy in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20216#13,459
202011#8,948
201914#7,712
201817#6,788
201716#7,088
201621#5,983
201522#5,831
201440#3,776
201343#3,571
201238#3,987
201146#3,451
201054#3,074
200949#3,360
200852#3,221
200744#3,652
200654#3,089
200545#3,362
200431#4,383
200341#3,468
200242#3,279
200137#3,545
200056#2,628
199939#3,242
199839#3,170
199728#3,894
199625#4,179
199528#3,775
199424#4,233
199311#7,491
199215#6,001
19918#9,328
19905#12,952
19890–
19880–
19877#8,773

Nicknames for Mckenzy

Names like Mckenzy

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

Names related to Mckenzy

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