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in reply to a message by Rachel
I prefer it on a girl, it's hardly ever been used on boys anyway. I say, whichever gender takes the name and runs with it, has it. First-come, first-served.
So what if it means "son of Kenneth?" Alison means "son of Alice" and nobody here seems to think it's a better name on boys. When I read the Canterbury Tales in high school, Alison appeared several times in the book, and always on females.
Most people don't really care that much, practice about a name's meaning. They do here because this is a board all about names, but I don't think all that many people select a name for its meaning, or discard a name because of it.
If Mackenzie means "son of Kenneth" and this is why people object to it on girls, then why don't they also object to it for any boy whose dad isn't named Kenneth?
So what if it means "son of Kenneth?" Alison means "son of Alice" and nobody here seems to think it's a better name on boys. When I read the Canterbury Tales in high school, Alison appeared several times in the book, and always on females.
Most people don't really care that much, practice about a name's meaning. They do here because this is a board all about names, but I don't think all that many people select a name for its meaning, or discard a name because of it.
If Mackenzie means "son of Kenneth" and this is why people object to it on girls, then why don't they also object to it for any boy whose dad isn't named Kenneth?
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"I prefer it on a girl, it's hardly ever been used on boys anyway. I say, whichever gender takes the name and runs with it, has it. First-come, first-served."
What an ethnocentric view! In America that might be true, but in the UK, MacKenzie is almost NEVER a girl's name, as in Scotland it is legitimately, and fairly commonly, used as an actual boy's name, so most parents over here couldn't imagine it on a girl.
What an ethnocentric view! In America that might be true, but in the UK, MacKenzie is almost NEVER a girl's name, as in Scotland it is legitimately, and fairly commonly, used as an actual boy's name, so most parents over here couldn't imagine it on a girl.
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"If Mackenzie means "son of Kenneth" and this is why people object to it on girls, then why don't they also object to it for any boy whose dad isn't named Kenneth?"
OK, I laughed out loud at this one!!! I would have never thought of it, but it's so true :o) Hysterical!
OK, I laughed out loud at this one!!! I would have never thought of it, but it's so true :o) Hysterical!
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Alison can go back to the French diminutive of Alice formed by adding -on, but according to Reaney & Wilson's A Dictionary of English Surnames, it can also go back to either "son of Alice" or "son of Alan". This would be especially true of the spelling Allison, and Allison is definitely the most common spelling of the female given name in the modern United States.
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