Given name & surname

Mckinzie

McKinzie is a surname from Scottish Gaelic.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

McKinzie comes from Scottish Gaelic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Mckinzie through the years

Babies since 1880
1,538
0 boys · 1,538 girls
Most popular year
2006
84 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
−67%
Cooling
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Mckinzie in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1978–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 84 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,446 as a first name in 2020; 3,673 as a surname in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Mckinzie’s family of names

In English usage, Mckinzie as a surname has a related form in McKenzie.

Walk Mckinzie’s family in the name graph

MckinzieMckynzieMckinzyMckinziMckinzeeMckinzyeMcKenzieMckinnzie

Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 2

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 5

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

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Sibling ideas

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