Mackenzie
At the 2020 census, 13,446 Americans bore the surname Mackenzie — 2,621st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 22,200.
By the numbers
- People
- 13,446
- Rank
- 2,621st
- How common
- 1 in 22,200
- Per 100,000
- 4.5
Where the name comes from
Origin Scottish Gaelic
of Scots MacKenȝie with the letter ⟨ȝ⟩ confused with ⟨z⟩. Ultimately from Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, itself.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Mackenzie described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Mackenzie
- Alexander Mackenzie (1822–1892)2nd Prime Minister of Canada
- Alexander Mackenzie (1764–1820)Scottish explorer and fur trader
- Compton Mackenzie (1883–1972)Scottish writer, cultural commentator, raconteur and nationalist
- David Mackenzie (born 1966)British film director
- Colin Mackenzie (1754–1821)Surveyor General of India
- Linda Mackenzie (born 1983)Australian swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
- William Lyon Mackenzie (1795–1861)Scottish-born Canadian-American journalist and politician
- Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831)Scottish lawyer and writer;
People named Mackenzie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Mackenzie
Also a first name
Mackenzie has been given to 149,135 American babies as a first name since 1973, peaking in 2001. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.