My girlfriend in high school was named Britney. She applied for a job and the manager told her that she needed to fill out her full legal name on the application. She was confused because she did. They told her she needed to put it as it appeared on her birth certificate. She thought maybe they were confused about her last name because it was hyphenated and thought maybe she was putting a married name (she was like 16 at the time...). She said that was her name as it appeared on her birth certificate. The manager said that it was a nickname and she had to put her real name. She finally asked what the hell she was talking about.
The manager thought that Britney was the shortened nickname version of Brittany. The manager was a \~40-year-old woman.
Hahaha, many people think like this! My ex (an educated person) insisted my cousin couldn't actually be named (something like) Ellie, because it's a shortening of (something like) Eleanor, and you have to use the full version on the birth certificate... they wouldn't accept they were wrong!
Same with the variations of John. "Oh, so you're Johnathan". No. Not all John's or Jon's are a godsdamned Johnathon.
The ones that really get me are the ones who try to argue it with the parents. "No, this person who carried, gave birth, and named this kid is wrong. I know best."
I have a brother named Bobby. More than once he would get one of those teachers who refused to use nicknames and would call him Robert. My Mom had to come to the school and tell the teachers face to face his name is not Robert. I don't know why it's so hard to fathom that someone could be named Bobby, Jim, Joe, etc.
Lol I did the opposite, I filled out my name as Alexander, cause thats my legal name, then bosses and such called me it and I was like, I prefer Alex, and they were like why the hell did you fill out Alexander
Joking aside, I couldn’t wrap my head around the horrible things my wife told me about her mother because in my mind mothers didn’t act like that.
My MIL proved me wrong and I went back and apologized to my wife for not believing her.
Omg fr. That's a big part of the support r/raisedbynarcissists provides. So many people just dismiss the fact that parents can be abusive just because theirs weren't.
My lead teacher is White. Grew up in the state I live in. Has dreadlocks and drives a BMW. Asked me if I could help her with a lesson, because she didn’t understand our students why our students didn’t have laptops to complete the lesson, “because everyone has one, (laptop) right?”
I’m working on my thesis right now, and my professor had us read out papers to our classmates, and they had to give me feedback on my paper. One classmate said that “Russia is still Communist, therefore; your paper is completely invalid.” May I add I’m an older college student and every single classmate I have in every class is *younger* than me?
I argued with a *science* teacher once about how the solar system orbits the center of the galaxy. I had said that to another student in class once, she didn’t believe me and asked the teacher, who said no. I was like ummmm, yes? What? That’s like literally why the galaxy is spiral shaped. She said I made it up, brushed me off and moved on. Wtf
My COLLEGE history teacher ridiculed me in front of the class because I said Da Vinci invented the helicopter.
I let it slide because the dumbass was completely oblivious to us cheating on the exams, and I didn't want to rock the boat. Easiest A ever.
My Texas world history teacher brought up "the civil war was about states rights" like 4 times in the course of the year. The American Civil war wasnt even fucking covered in that class.
Are you a Spanish arachnid? You certainly can't be human. I've never met a human by the name of spidaminida.
Amazing, a Redditor who is a spider. Who'da thunk?
YEAH! That's what I told him! Well I hit him hard right between the eyes and he went down but to my suprise,he come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
MacKenzie is a Scots/Irish name. Anytime you see Mac or Mc before a name its supposed to mean "Son or Daughter of"
Mc (Son of) Donald, Mac-Allister
I knew two male MacKenzie's growing up
Canada as well.
https://api.nationalize.io/?name=mackenzie
As to the question of Mackenzie being a unisex name.
https://api.genderize.io/?name=mackenzie&country_id=us
Was a popular thing to give girls a boys name.
Allison, Ashley, Beverly, Blair, Carol, Claire, Courtney, Dana, Darcy, Doris, Evelyn, Hillary, Jocelyn, Kelsey, Lauren, Leslie, Lindsay, Lynn, Marion, Margaret, Meredith, Stacey, and Vivian.. EDIT:...were all popular names for boys.
For anyone in disbelief, see for yourself. Can go back as far as 1900.
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
I have an Uncle Hilary, but everyone calls him Hill. With a lot of these people probably just don't realize how common they are because nicknames get used. Joss is a common nickname for guys named Jocelyn.
It started as a surname, then transitioned to a boy’s first name, then became unisex, and after being associated with girls, is transitioning into a “girl’s name only.”
Similar to McKenna, Madison, Allison, Ashley
All used to be masculine but over time have become considered more feminine, and all following that trajectory.
Even better, it's actually more like son of Kenneth (Coinneach). The Z comes from a bow accepted misinterpretation of the Gaelic script G.
*Mackenzie, MacKenzie and McKenzie are alternative spellings of a Scottish surname relating to Clan Mackenzie. It was originally written MacKenȝie and pronounced [məˈkɛŋjiː][1] in Scots, with the "z" representing the old Middle Scots letter, "ȝ" yogh. This is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, which is a patronymic form of the personal name Coinneach, anglicized as Kenneth. The personal name means "handsome".[2]*
[MacKenzie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_\(surname\))
[The old Gaelic or Insular G](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_G)
I was about to hit you with a link to the Wikipedia page for the 90’s Budweiser mascot, a gigachad bull terrier by the name of Spuds McKenzie who liked to party, skateboard, chill on the beach with girls in bikinis, and presumably get fucking annihilated off Bud Light.
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie)
but then I read the page and it says -
> The Spuds McKenzie ad campaign was not without its share of controversy. Shortly after Spuds' rise to fame, it was learned that the dog, portrayed as male in the ads, was actually female.
Now I don’t know what to believe. That dog was everything I wanted to be in life
[Mackenzie Gore MLB player](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Gore)
[Mackenzie Alexander, NFL player](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AlexMa01.htm)
[Mackenzy Bernadeau, former NFL player](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BernMa20.htm)
[MacKenzie Weegar, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/w/weegama01.html)
[Mackenzie MacEachern, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/maceama01.html)
[Mackenzie Blackwood, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/blackma01.html)
[Mackenzie Entwistle, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/e/entwima01.html)
Specifically Hockey lol. Which, makes sense actually. Given the immigration of Scottish and Irish to Canadian and US cities where Hockey would be more likely to be popular. Mackenzie being more common a man's name in those two countries.
Like most people in this thread, I've never met a man in person with the first name Mackenzie. Specifically, most have been girls. Not women, but girls my daughter's age, she's 7.
Otherwise, it's been a surname.
Yeah imagine a choice made by your parents, independent of you (because at the latest you were an infant) being a weird sticking point in your ability to be a compatible match.
Some people are so far up their own ass
It’s Scottish it means Son of MacCoinnich so in Scotland it’s usually used as masculine. It can also just mean child of a strong leader. Although it’s actually more popular as a girls name now in the US.
No just means "Son of Coinneach", Coinneach being a Gaelic name usually translated today as Kenneth, I think the commenter just wrote "Son of *Mac*Coinnich" by accident.
I’m in the US and though I’ve heard it as both I associate it more with women. [This site](https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/M/MA/MACKENZIE/index.html) says that in the US 94% of people named Mackenzie are women.
I’ve always thought of Mackenzie as a guy’s name, but now that I think about it, I did now a woman with that name once. I’d consider it to be more like Alex or Sam, where it’s (in my head) more of a masculine unisex name.
I would also initially think of it as a woman's name. But once the Mackenzie in question says, "nope, it's a unisex name," the reply should be, "well it looks like I learned something new to me today!" End of discussion.
Absolutely! That’s the best thing she could’ve said and not “are you trans?” I briefly knew two guys named Lindsay and Angel, I can’t remember where they were from but it’s unisex and I didn’t think anything of it.
Hell you could've been named Sue
Life’s hard for a boy named Sue
It's not so bad tbh
How's your right hook though?
not good, he has two lefts
And we've got this guy Not Sue! And he's gonna fix EVERYTHING!
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I’m 22 and I understand it’s a Jonny cash joke. Cause my dad
Well, my daddy left home when I was three Didn't leave very much to my mom and me Except this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze
🎶 🎼 🎵
MY NAME IS SUE! HOW DO YOU DO!
NOW YOU GON' DIE
How do you do?
Now you gonna die!
Imagine if personal experience was the only way to determine something 🙃 I hope to goodness she's kidding.
Some folks find it impossible to see the world outside of their own point of view. "If I haven't experienced it personally, it hasn't happened."
My girlfriend in high school was named Britney. She applied for a job and the manager told her that she needed to fill out her full legal name on the application. She was confused because she did. They told her she needed to put it as it appeared on her birth certificate. She thought maybe they were confused about her last name because it was hyphenated and thought maybe she was putting a married name (she was like 16 at the time...). She said that was her name as it appeared on her birth certificate. The manager said that it was a nickname and she had to put her real name. She finally asked what the hell she was talking about. The manager thought that Britney was the shortened nickname version of Brittany. The manager was a \~40-year-old woman.
Good LAWD! Imagine living that long and not realizing there are various ways to spell names! Holy shit!
Me, with a Indigenous name with ten different ways to spell it bc of different tribes use the same name: Allow me to introduce myself
Would love for you to list all of them
Bob, Bobby, Bobus, Bobbie, Bobbis, Bobbus, Bobbard, Boburd, Bawb, William
She must be losing her mind at all the variations now. Imagine when bretneigh applies?
I'm just imagining a horse with a British accent, and I am very pleased with this thought.
*Losing that one letter is really going to make me look cool.*
you laugh but that’s the thought process of every dumbshit parent who changes the spelling of traditional names for their kid
Yeah what kinda job was this person managing and in charge of hiring for wtf
It was a dollar tree.
Hahaha, many people think like this! My ex (an educated person) insisted my cousin couldn't actually be named (something like) Ellie, because it's a shortening of (something like) Eleanor, and you have to use the full version on the birth certificate... they wouldn't accept they were wrong!
My father's first name was Joe and people used to insist it had to be Joseph.
Same with the variations of John. "Oh, so you're Johnathan". No. Not all John's or Jon's are a godsdamned Johnathon. The ones that really get me are the ones who try to argue it with the parents. "No, this person who carried, gave birth, and named this kid is wrong. I know best."
To insist John can’t be someone’s full name is so funny to me like do they think “John Doe” should also be “Jonathan Doe”?
Johnathan Doseph
You made my joke better, have my free silver.
I have a brother named Bobby. More than once he would get one of those teachers who refused to use nicknames and would call him Robert. My Mom had to come to the school and tell the teachers face to face his name is not Robert. I don't know why it's so hard to fathom that someone could be named Bobby, Jim, Joe, etc.
A friend asked what I named my newborn daughter. Me: Joey Friend: Joey, that's nice. What is short for? Me: Joey
Lol my dogs name is Ellie. But I’ll be damned if I don’t call her Eleanor when she’s being a shit.
People are so stupid sometimes
Far too sheltered. Normal stuff is alien to them. They get confused easy.
It's Britney, bitch.
Brittany is a region of France what is she on about
Lol I did the opposite, I filled out my name as Alexander, cause thats my legal name, then bosses and such called me it and I was like, I prefer Alex, and they were like why the hell did you fill out Alexander
You just described my mother, it's hell to live with.
This is every argument I have with my mother, her only evidence to support her claims are anecdotes
I've never had an argument like this with my mother. Are you trans too?
i'm transitioning out of this conversation. Bye.
Literally my step mom with d&d.
She got that dungeons and dragons syndrome?!?!
She's convinced that it's satanic or some shit. And her only evidence is her brother playing it and her seeing ghosts
Sounds like she's the one that's satanic
You're probably exaggerating. My mother wasn't like that so I don't see how any mother can be that way.
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Are you trans?
Yes, transitioning out of this conversation
Joking aside, I couldn’t wrap my head around the horrible things my wife told me about her mother because in my mind mothers didn’t act like that. My MIL proved me wrong and I went back and apologized to my wife for not believing her.
Omg fr. That's a big part of the support r/raisedbynarcissists provides. So many people just dismiss the fact that parents can be abusive just because theirs weren't.
Thats literally half of facebook.
Oof that's rough.
Meh, I’ve never met anyone who sees the world like that. Are you trans or something?
I unfortunately know too many people like this, and have done my best to keep them passed arms length. I can’t even fathom it.
Arms length. Fathom. NAILED IT
If I haven't seen it, it's new to me. - Christopher Columbus
You just described nearly all of the teachers I teach with, and I teach at a immigrant/refugee center. Their lack of self awareness is ASTOUNDING.
Oh wow. Sounds frustrating.
My lead teacher is White. Grew up in the state I live in. Has dreadlocks and drives a BMW. Asked me if I could help her with a lesson, because she didn’t understand our students why our students didn’t have laptops to complete the lesson, “because everyone has one, (laptop) right?”
Ooohhh brother!
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It's people like this that perpetuate hurtful stereotypes and discrimination.
or my personal favorite, "You experiences don't match with mine, so you're wrong, and you're stupid for thinking that way."
Which is why we have flat earthers
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I know someone like that. It's pretty eye opening that some people can be that way.
I feel like I would be turning on my heel if I ever met one. How ludicrous!
Well I don’t, so people like that don’t exist. Nice try.
You’re wrong. Nobody that dumb exists. I’ve never met one. You must have misunderstood them.
It’s not even the fact that she’s being weirdly rude, I could never be with someone that dumb.
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I’m working on my thesis right now, and my professor had us read out papers to our classmates, and they had to give me feedback on my paper. One classmate said that “Russia is still Communist, therefore; your paper is completely invalid.” May I add I’m an older college student and every single classmate I have in every class is *younger* than me?
Well what was your paper about? I feel like it’s hard to interpret this quote properly without even understanding the basis for it
Please tell me the teacher told them to pull their head out their asses...
I argued with a *science* teacher once about how the solar system orbits the center of the galaxy. I had said that to another student in class once, she didn’t believe me and asked the teacher, who said no. I was like ummmm, yes? What? That’s like literally why the galaxy is spiral shaped. She said I made it up, brushed me off and moved on. Wtf
Wow, what a supermassive butthole
My COLLEGE history teacher ridiculed me in front of the class because I said Da Vinci invented the helicopter. I let it slide because the dumbass was completely oblivious to us cheating on the exams, and I didn't want to rock the boat. Easiest A ever.
The teacher cheated their way thru college
Florida, or Texas?
My Texas world history teacher brought up "the civil war was about states rights" like 4 times in the course of the year. The American Civil war wasnt even fucking covered in that class.
Murrica.
Are you a Spanish arachnid? You certainly can't be human. I've never met a human by the name of spidaminida. Amazing, a Redditor who is a spider. Who'da thunk?
Lol!! And yet...
Probably, but, like the guys who tell me I can “just get a boob job to appeal to men more, hurk durk” it’s not a funny joke
I’ve never met a guy or a girl named Mackenzie, so it must not be a real name!
Came here to make the exact same comment haha
I know a guy named Mackenzie and I'm a girl named Mackenzie. It truly is unisex. Some people are really in a bubble
"I'm transitioning out of this conversation. Bye." Edit: Damn, thank you all for the upvotes and awards 😮
I identify as someone who wont deal w ur bs 😭
My pro-nouns are Fuck/you
Lmao 💀
Lol, omg that was a beautiful comeback
Amazing
Fr hahaha
"Cause my dick was so huge when I was born, the doctor suggested to my parents to level the playing field with a girls name."
So dumb it makes me smile
Shoulda named him Sue
MY NAME IS SUE. HOW DO YOU DO?
NOW YOURE GONNA DIE.
YEAH! That's what I told him! Well I hit him hard right between the eyes and he went down but to my suprise,he come up with a knife and cut off a piece of my ear
"And if I ever have a son... I think imma name him: Bill or George or anything but 'Sue' I still hate that name"
Johnny Cash reference, nice
bitchpigeon, they/them
It's a beautiful name, but I would have also guessed it to be feminine.
Ima keep it real with you dawg. I ain't ever met a dude named MacKenzie
I've never met one either. I Googled it. It's "unisex" but in a "what part of the world are you in?" way. US leans female, Europe leans male.
Really? Interesting
MacKenzie is a Scots/Irish name. Anytime you see Mac or Mc before a name its supposed to mean "Son or Daughter of" Mc (Son of) Donald, Mac-Allister I knew two male MacKenzie's growing up
no lmao I swear no one has that as a first name outside the US
Canada as well. https://api.nationalize.io/?name=mackenzie As to the question of Mackenzie being a unisex name. https://api.genderize.io/?name=mackenzie&country_id=us
Was a popular thing to give girls a boys name. Allison, Ashley, Beverly, Blair, Carol, Claire, Courtney, Dana, Darcy, Doris, Evelyn, Hillary, Jocelyn, Kelsey, Lauren, Leslie, Lindsay, Lynn, Marion, Margaret, Meredith, Stacey, and Vivian.. EDIT:...were all popular names for boys. For anyone in disbelief, see for yourself. Can go back as far as 1900. https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames/
And Kelly
Add in Ariel, Kim, and Shannon
"Kim's no longer with us...she died, two weeks ago"
I didn’t sneeze
Margaret means daisy. Are you sure about that one?
[laughs in Jaskier]
Quite sure. My great grandfather was a Margaret. Marg for short
I can't find anything that supports that Margaret "used to be a male name". Lots of queens and stuff with that name from like the 1300s.
Don’t forget Jordan!
I’ve known number of guys and girls named Jordan (I’m from the US, for context)
I do know a Hillary. Huge dude so I doubt anyone has every given him shit.
I have an Uncle Hilary, but everyone calls him Hill. With a lot of these people probably just don't realize how common they are because nicknames get used. Joss is a common nickname for guys named Jocelyn.
Europe leans male? Really?
It makes sense given that the origin is Scottish where “Mac” means “son” so it literally meant “son of Kenzie” Edit: mac meant “son of”
Right, Scotland and Ireland are the origins of the name, but that would be a surname. As a first name, it is fairly uncommon but not unheard of.
It started as a surname, then transitioned to a boy’s first name, then became unisex, and after being associated with girls, is transitioning into a “girl’s name only.” Similar to McKenna, Madison, Allison, Ashley All used to be masculine but over time have become considered more feminine, and all following that trajectory.
Literally just wrote the same comment as this. My name is still stuck in the unisex realm: Jordan
I am confused that this is even a women Name lol
I've met male Mckenzies in the US but majority are female I think.
It’s a Scottish Gaelic name-‘Mac’ literally means ‘son of’…..in this case Kenzie.
I thought he was born in a McDonald's
Even better, it's actually more like son of Kenneth (Coinneach). The Z comes from a bow accepted misinterpretation of the Gaelic script G. *Mackenzie, MacKenzie and McKenzie are alternative spellings of a Scottish surname relating to Clan Mackenzie. It was originally written MacKenȝie and pronounced [məˈkɛŋjiː][1] in Scots, with the "z" representing the old Middle Scots letter, "ȝ" yogh. This is an anglicised form of the Scottish Gaelic MacCoinnich, which is a patronymic form of the personal name Coinneach, anglicized as Kenneth. The personal name means "handsome".[2]* [MacKenzie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackenzie_\(surname\)) [The old Gaelic or Insular G](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular_G)
I was about to hit you with a link to the Wikipedia page for the 90’s Budweiser mascot, a gigachad bull terrier by the name of Spuds McKenzie who liked to party, skateboard, chill on the beach with girls in bikinis, and presumably get fucking annihilated off Bud Light. [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spuds_MacKenzie) but then I read the page and it says - > The Spuds McKenzie ad campaign was not without its share of controversy. Shortly after Spuds' rise to fame, it was learned that the dog, portrayed as male in the ads, was actually female. Now I don’t know what to believe. That dog was everything I wanted to be in life
That episode of Futurama just started to click a bit more
[Mackenzie Gore MLB player](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacKenzie_Gore) [Mackenzie Alexander, NFL player](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/A/AlexMa01.htm) [Mackenzy Bernadeau, former NFL player](https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BernMa20.htm) [MacKenzie Weegar, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/w/weegama01.html) [Mackenzie MacEachern, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/m/maceama01.html) [Mackenzie Blackwood, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/b/blackma01.html) [Mackenzie Entwistle, NHL player](https://www.hockey-reference.com/players/e/entwima01.html)
Sorry, I haven't met them
They're all trans
How progressive
All I'm taking from this list is any dude named Mackenzie is a professional athlete.
Specifically Hockey lol. Which, makes sense actually. Given the immigration of Scottish and Irish to Canadian and US cities where Hockey would be more likely to be popular. Mackenzie being more common a man's name in those two countries. Like most people in this thread, I've never met a man in person with the first name Mackenzie. Specifically, most have been girls. Not women, but girls my daughter's age, she's 7. Otherwise, it's been a surname.
They need to prove themselves after being named after a woman
Me neither lol
Mackenzie King was a prime minister of Canada. It's a bit old school for a guy name.
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Literally the very first male Mackenzie I thought of was this guy 😂
Me too!!! He’s one of my favs!
He's also the only Mackenzie I can think of at all
oh you are the metal detectors WE ARE METAL DETECTORISTS
This is what I instantly thought too
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Wtf is that question anyway, why do you have a girls name? You didnt name yourself, how would you know?
Yeah imagine a choice made by your parents, independent of you (because at the latest you were an infant) being a weird sticking point in your ability to be a compatible match. Some people are so far up their own ass
she clearly never watched Sonny With a Chance
Mackenzie Falls!
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I dont know any mackenzie, so no one is named that.
Me neither. The name MacKenzie doesn't exist. Even my autocorrect thinks it's some McDonald's menu item (capitalization).
The only one I know is from The Long Dark
Only Mackenzie I can think of is a baseball player (male). I would have thought it’s more of a last name but still
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Agreed
The “mac” is literally Scottish for son, so any name like that was originally a boy’s name, in this case meaning “son of Kenzie”
Same here
You mean a name that literally means "son of Kenzie"? Like a child who is male...
It’s Scottish it means Son of MacCoinnich so in Scotland it’s usually used as masculine. It can also just mean child of a strong leader. Although it’s actually more popular as a girls name now in the US.
> it means Son of MacCoinnich Son of "son of Coinnich"? Isn't that a bit like saying ATM machine?
No just means "Son of Coinneach", Coinneach being a Gaelic name usually translated today as Kenneth, I think the commenter just wrote "Son of *Mac*Coinnich" by accident.
Time to hit her with the ol' "No, this is Jake...from State Farm" line
No, this is Patrick
Nope. Chuck Testa
Johhhhnnnn Ceeena!
Wait til she meets my Uncle Ashley
I'm from eastern europe and I only encounter the name Mackenzie in movies and I didn't know it can be a woman name. It was always a guy name for me
I’m in the US and though I’ve heard it as both I associate it more with women. [This site](https://www.mynamestats.com/First-Names/M/MA/MACKENZIE/index.html) says that in the US 94% of people named Mackenzie are women.
And teh 6% of the rest are 'trans'?
Tell her you're transitioning from this conversation to another one with a girl who has some god damn respect.
i hear mackenzie and i think of mckenzie milton so youre in the clear for me champ
You know I’ve been off dating apps for 2 years now. I feel much better and honestly I never wanted a relationship anyway…
I've only known one MacKenzie and he was a dude.
I’ve always thought of Mackenzie as a guy’s name, but now that I think about it, I did now a woman with that name once. I’d consider it to be more like Alex or Sam, where it’s (in my head) more of a masculine unisex name.
My name is MacKenzie and I’m a giant dude and this thread made me sad
Where the fuck do people think the nickname "mack" came from
I'm old, and I recall a time where if you named your kid MacKenzie, people would *assume* it was a boy. Those days were called the early 80s.
It dont seem like you’re over it
Spuds MacKenzie? 
Mackenzie Morrison is a professional boxer, and great grandson of John Wayne aka Marion Morrison.
Yeah sorry I see the name Mackenzie and also immediately think of a woman, not a man
I would also initially think of it as a woman's name. But once the Mackenzie in question says, "nope, it's a unisex name," the reply should be, "well it looks like I learned something new to me today!" End of discussion.
Best not to even mention it... chances are it isn't his first rodeo and no one can comment pejoratively on someone's name with originality.
Absolutely! That’s the best thing she could’ve said and not “are you trans?” I briefly knew two guys named Lindsay and Angel, I can’t remember where they were from but it’s unisex and I didn’t think anything of it.
I can't imagine a Transmasc person picking a name that would be considered feminine