Mckinney Family History
Mckinney Name Meaning
Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Cionaodha or Mac Cionaoith ‘son of ç’ an early Gaelic personal name popular from the ninth century and possibly derived from Pictish. Irish (northern): Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Coinnigh ‘son of Coinneach’ an Old Irish personal name borne by a Christian saint and Anglicized in Ireland as Canice which was treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth . This surname was usually Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie but is otherwise hard to distinguish from sense 1 above.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names 2nd edition, 2022