Last Name MACKENZIE

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Meaning The son of Kenneth, which signifies a chieftain. The family are descended from Colin Fitzgerald, a scion of the Kildare family in Ireland, who in 1263 came to Scotland to assist Alexander III against the Danes, and he behaved so well at the battle of Largis in Coningham, that he was in 1266 rewarded with the Barony of Kintail, in which he was succeeded by his son Kenneth, whose descendants were called Mackennie, afterwards varied into MacKenzie.
Origin Scottish, Jewish, Irish, Falkland, Haitian, Belgian, Zimbabwean, Namibian, South african, Angolan

Rank 2,515 (2000 US census) 2,574 (1990 US census)
Count 13,174 (2000 US census)

Race / ethnic distribution

The 2000 US Census claims that
  • 94.5%, or 12449 total occurrences, of those with this family name identified themselves as being white,
  • 1.11%, or 146 total occurrences, as black,
  • 0.71%, or 94 total occurrences, as Asian and Pacific Islander,
  • 0.26%, or 34 total occurrences, as American Indian and Native Alaskan,
  • 1.41%, or 186 total occurrences, as two or more races, and
  • 2.02%, or 266 total occurrences, as Hispanic ethnic origin.


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