Mackenzie is a given name

Given name

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 derived from a Scottish

Scotland

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 surname. In North America

North America

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, the name is used for girls less often than boys.

Statistics

Mackenzie was the 64th most popular name for girls born in the United States

United States

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 in 2007. This spelling of the name was also among the top 1,000 most popular names for American boys from 1980 to 2001. It was last ranked among the top 1,000 names for boys in the United States in 2001. Alternate spelling McKenzie was the 161st most popular name for girls born in 2007 in the United States.

Variations

Variations of the given name Mackenzie include: Makenzie, Mackynzie, Makensie, Mickenzie. A reduced form of Mackenzie is Kenzie.

People with the given name

• Mackenzie Astin
  Mackenzie Astin
  -Biography:Astin was born on May 12, 1973, in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Patty Duke and actor John Astin. His older half-brother is actor Sean Astin. He attended Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School and University High School in Los Angeles, California...
  
   (b. 1973), American actor.
• Sir Mackenzie Bowell
  Mackenzie Bowell
  Sir Mackenzie Bowell, PC, KCMG was a Canadian politician who served as the fifth Prime Minister of Canada from December 21, 1894 to April 27, 1896.-Early life:Bowell was born in Rickinghall, Suffolk, England to John Bowell and Elizabeth Marshall...
  
   (1823-1917), English-born Canadian Prime Minister.
• Mackenzie Crook
  Mackenzie Crook
  Paul Mackenzie Crook is a British actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.-Life and career:...
  
   (b. 1971), British actor.
• Mackenzie Phillips
  Mackenzie Phillips
  Mackenzie Phillips is an American actress and singer best known for her roles in American Graffiti and as rebellious teenager Julie Cooper Horvath on the sitcom One Day at a Time...
  
   (b. 1959), American actress.
• Mackenzie Rosman
  Mackenzie Rosman
  Mackenzie Lyn Rosman is an American actress and singer. She is best known for her television role as Ruthie Camden on The WB/The CW's longest-running show 7th Heaven.- Personal life :Rosman was born in Charleston, South Carolina....
  
   (b. 1989), American actress.
• Mackenzie Thorpe
  Mackenzie Thorpe
  Mackenzie Thorpe is a British artist. Born as the first of seven children into the post-war industrial town, Thorpe initially took on work in the shipyards, such were his familial origins...
  
   (b. 1956), British artist.
• Mackenzie Gault
• Mackynzie Duggar (b. 2009), daughter of American reality TV stars Joshua and Anna Duggar.
• Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes
  MacKenzie Boyd-Clowes
  Mackenzie Boyd-Clowes is a Canadian ski jumper who has competed internationally since 2004. At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he finished 12th in the team large hill, 44th in the individual normal hill, and 45th in the individual large hill events...
  
   (b. 1991), Canadian ski jumper, olympian.
• Mackenzie Browning Hellstrom
  Mackenzie Browning
  Mackenzie Hellstrom is a fictional character on the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless, introduced in 1999 as a part of the new teen scene and revealed to be the granddaughter of wealthy businesswoman Katherine Chancellor.-Casting:Ashley Bashioum, the actress that played the role for the...
  
  , a character on the American soap opera The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless
  The Young and the Restless is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. The show is set in a fictional Wisconsin town called Genoa City, which is unlike and unrelated to the real life village of the same name, Genoa City, Wisconsin...