Entry № 6151 · Scottish origin

Mackenzie Mackenzie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ muh-KEN-zee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Scottish
Meaning
"Son of the fair one"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Surname: medieval

A name that means "son of the fair one".

Mackenzie comes from the Scottish surname Mac Coinnich, meaning "son of Coinneach" — Coinneach is from the Old Irish cainnech, meaning "handsome" or "fair." Originally a male Scottish surname.

Son of the fair one — a Scottish name.

The name in its native script.

Mackenzie
Transliteration
Mackenzie
Pronunciation
/ məˈkɛn.zi /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Mackenzie stands.

Mackenzie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Mackenzies before her.

Real people
Mackenzie Phillips
American actress, One Day at a Time.
born 1959
Mackenzie Foy
American actress.
born 2000
In fiction

Names connected to Mackenzie.

The number behind Mackenzie.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Mackenzie reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.