# McKinney

> English word · Proper noun · frequency rank #24,826

## Definitions
1. A surname.
2. A city, the county seat of Collin County, Texas, United States.

## Etymology
* As a Scottish and Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Cionaodha, Mac Cionaoith.
* Also as an Irish surname, Anglicized from Mac Coinnigh (“son of Coinneach”), also treated in Scotland as equivalent to Kenneth.
Both senses above are derived from Pictish *ᚉᚔᚅᚔᚑᚇ. Sometimes Anglicized in Scotland as McKenzie.

## Easily confused with
- **McKinnon** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mckinney-vs-mckinnon)
- **Mckinley** (https://plainspell.com/en/vs/mckinley-vs-mckinney)

## Common misspellings (11)
`cmkinney`, `mcckinney`, `mciknney`, `mckineny`, `mckiney`, `mckinneyy`, `mckinnye`, `mckkinney`, `mckniney`, `mkcinney`, `mmckinney`

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/mckinney