McKie
surname · Latin script
Meaning: A surname from Scottish Gaelic
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məˈki/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
McKie is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- VCSt. Vincent & Grenadines1 in 5.3K(measured from records)
- NONorway1 in 228K
- UYUruguay1 in 5Kas Macchi
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than McKie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 58 (measured from records)
- 1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
44,137 named McKee, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
St. Vincent & Grenadines
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled McKee in US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
McKie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 44,137as McKee | 1 in 7.5K | 44K | McKee | 32 |
| AR Argentina | 2,210as Macchi | 1 in 21K | 2.2K | — | — |
| UY Uruguay | 676as Macchi | 1 in 5K | 676 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 298as Macchi | 1 in 710K | 298 | — | — |
| CH Switzerland | 240as Macchi | 1 in 35K | 240 | — | — |
| NO Norway | 24 | 1 in 228K | 24 | — | — |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | 19 | 1 in 5.3K | 19 | — | — |
44,137 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling mckee. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
McKie is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
variant of McCoy.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- James McKieb. 1859GBScottish businessman
- William McKieb. 1884GBOlympic wrestler
- Helen McKieb. 1889GBBritish artist (1889-1957)
- David McKieb. 1935USBritish journalist and historian
- Judy Kensley McKieb. 1944USAmerican artist, furniture maker (born 1944)
- Robin McKieb. 1950GBjournalist for The Observer
- Angus McKieb. 1951GBartist
- Aaron McKieb. 1972USAmerican basketball player-coach
- BJ McKieb. 1977USAmerican basketball player (born 1977)
- Evan McKieb. 1983CACanadian ballet dancer and performer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 20 sources across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.9K | #11,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.7K | #11,100 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.6K | #11,134 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 24 | #38,688 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025) | 2025 | 19 | #243 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name McKie mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Scottish Gaelic. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce McKie?
- A machine transcription gives /məˈki/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does McKie have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 44 thousand people named McKee, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is McKie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, McKie is densest in St. Vincent & Grenadines — about 1 in 5.3 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name McKie?
- In Norway, the national register counted 24 people named McKie, about 1 in 228 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mckieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “McKie”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.