McKenzie

At the 2020 census, 58,046 Americans bore the surname McKenzie — 569th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 5,149.

By the numbers

People: 58,046
Rank: 569th
How common: 1 in 5,149
Per 100,000: 19.4

Where the name comes from

Origin Scottish Gaelic

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname McKenzie described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 61.1%
Black, not Hispanic 28.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 4.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.9%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called McKenzie

Ben McKenzie (born 1978)American actor
Scott McKenzie (1939–2012)American singer and songwriter
Thomasin McKenzie (born 2000)New Zealand actress
Mark McKenzie (born 1999)American soccer player
Jacqueline McKenzie (born 1967)Australian actress
Julia McKenzie (born 1941)British actress, presenter, director, writer
Linsey Dawn McKenzie (born 1978)British pornographic film actress
Bret McKenzie (born 1976)New Zealand actor and musician

People named McKenzie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like McKenzie

Also a first name

McKenzie has been given to 67,045 American babies as a first name since 1917, peaking in 2000. 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.