I hate this name.

[anapology.livejournal.com]

In honour of my disgust at the 45 different spellings of Mackenzie let's try and think of them.. because i am baffled. I could come up with about 5 maybe..
Think of one that's different and not been commented already, it has to be legit... not ridiculously creative. I mean surely no parents is crazy enough to ACTUALLY spell it Macckkenzeeey or similarly awful...oh wait there probably are..euw.

1)Mackenzie

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[bloomingtulip.livejournal.com]

Makenzy

[washironfucketc.livejournal.com]

Mckenzy
Mckenzee
Mackenzy
Mackenzee
Mackenzie

[collette.livejournal.com]

Makenzie

[my-fair-kadie.livejournal.com]

Mahckynnzeeh

*snickers*

[mrs-tobe.livejournal.com]

Mackensey <-----related to her.

[a-l-l-smiles.livejournal.com]

mackenzi

[miss-tee.livejournal.com]

mykenzie

[holly-megan.livejournal.com]

Mykynzy

I wouldn't put it past someone...

[neroli.livejournal.com]

45 is just getting started with this name. Here's my quick estimate:



The name can begin in 3 different ways. (I am assuming that capitalization is not a separate spelling)
Ma
Mac
Mc


There are 6 different ways to do the second syllable. If you use each of these second syllables with each of the first syllables, you get 3 x 6, or 18 different options so far.
Ken
Kenn
Kin
Kinn
Kyn
Kynn

You can continue on with 2 different consonants. 18 x 2 gives you 36 options so far.
s
z

For each of those 36 options, you have to try each of the following 6 endings, which gives us a total of TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN spellings. That's omitting all instances of silent H (or other even more phonetically improbable letters), refusing to recognize capitalization and punctuation marks as valid criteria for uniqueness, and ignoring the possibility of terrible eyesore spellings like Mk- and -ei. If you wanted to factor those in, you can see how the numbers very quickly could become staggering.

ea
ee
ey
i
ie
y

[julieannie.livejournal.com]

You forgot My- as in Mykenzie.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

I saw that people had offered that as an option before I posted, but to me that falls into the category of an eyesore spelling. That's just a personal preference, though (everyone has 'em).

[sotypical42483.livejournal.com]

People also start it with Mi. I've seen Mikinzi.

[neroli.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Well, if you guys really want to include My- and Mi- and Me- (I am feeling woozy just looking at these), the set would expand to 432.

I really can't bring myself to even consider Mu- or Mo- or the letter c near the end... so if you do happen to know a little Mukhencei please, please let me proceed in happy ignorance of her existence! ;)

[wake-tonight.livejournal.com]

I know a Mikenzie!

[xcuore.livejournal.com]

Mekenzi, in dutch its pronounced the same as Mackenzie