Kinzie

Where Kinzie comes from

The dictionaries list Kinzie as a given name — a female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kenzie, short form of MacKinzie — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1977
    First appearance
    #7,567 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2015
    Peak, #2,236
    84 babies named Kinzie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #3,848.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kenzie, short form of MacKinzie
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, variant of Kenzie, short form of MacKinzie
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.