# McKenzie (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/mckenzie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A Scottish surname from Scottish Gaelic, variant of MacKenzie.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | Scottish Gaelic |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 59,595 |
| US rank (2010) | 563 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 5,181 people |
| Change since 2000 | +8.2% (55,084 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Who carries it

Share of people named McKenzie in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 65% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 29% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 3.0% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 0.7% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.7% |
| Two or more races | 2.3% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named McKenzie in the United States, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

## People named McKenzie

- Ben McKenzie, American actor (born 1978)
- Mark McKenzie, American soccer player
- Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress
- Julia McKenzie, British actress, presenter, director, writer
- Jemma McKenzie-Brown, actress, singer, dancer
- Fay McKenzie, American actress (1918-2019)
- Kenneth F. McKenzie, Jr., American Marine Corps general
- George McKenzie, boxer (1901-1941)
- David McKenzie, Australian cyclist
- Florence Violet McKenzie, Australian electrical engineer (1890-1982)
- Austin P. McKenzie, American stage and screen actor, and sign-language interpreter
- Hamish McKenzie, Australian cyclist

and 3 more on Wikidata.

## Similar surnames

Mackenzie, McKinzie, McKinsey, McKnight, McMeekin, McGinnis, Magnuson, McInnis, McMichael, McMaster, Messenger, Mickens.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.