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I realize that Mackenzie is currently in fashion as a girl's name. But the "Mc/Mac" part will always say, "son of" to me. It would be like naming a dd "Kennethson."

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I don't suppose I could interest you in Mallory or Kinsella instead?

I only like it spelled McKenzie. Makenzie is ok. I don't like Mackenzie because the -ck- in it looks so harsh.

I like it.

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Everyone says it's a boy name, but I work at a high school, and the only Mackenzies I see are girls. I never thought the sound of the name was super-masculine anyway, so it's all good. Go for it.

I hate Mackenzie on a girl. It's a surname that does not make a pretty name for a girl and I just don't get this surname-on-girls craze. I hope that it will go away in time, time meaning thirty years or so, because that's about how long it takes for names to lose popularity. It would be great if it were sooner, but I don't expect that. Some day the country will be full of old ladies named Mackenzie, Bailey, Addison, Madison, Cameron, Parker, and the like, and young people will say, "Ew old lady name, that was my grandmother's name" and I can't wait for that day to come, even though I will be dead.

It may have originally been a surname, and surnames did tend to be used as first names mainly on boys.

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But Mackenzie never caught on as a boy's name. And I am willing to bet money I don't even have that your friends that are insisting the name is a boy's name do not know more than one male Mackenzie between them, while they probably know tons of female ones.