Mackenzie

Mackenzie is a Scottish clan name, from the Gaelic MacCoinnich, "son of Coinneach," with Coinneach meaning "handsome" or "fair one." Alexander Mackenzie was the first European to cross North America north of Mexico, in 1793; his namesake river still threads the Canadian Arctic. As a first name it moved from boys to girls in the 1990s, helped along by Mackenzie Phillips and the tag-team popularity of surname-names. Currently at rank 200 in the U.S., it reads almost exclusively feminine now. Three syllables, with the ready nicknames Mac and Kenzie. Sporty, crisp, genuinely warm. Mackenzie is friendly by default and sharp when it needs to be.