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Go with Gabriella. It's far less trendy and much more substantial than Makenzie, and moreover won't date your child to the late 1990s-mid-2000s; Gabriella won't be 2086's nursing home equivalent of Bertha or Gertrude, like Makenzie undoubtedly will. Also, Gabriella's actually spelled correctly, unlike Makenzie.

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Misspelling Mackenzie as Makenzie with the idea that taking the C out takes out the "Mac- means 'son of'" doesn't work. It just makes the name look even more super-trendy in addition to it looking horribly misspelled to me. Mackenzie means "son of Kenneth", period.

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EDIT: Rewrote first part to include datability of Makenzie.

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Miranda

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Proud adopter of 15 punctuation marks; see my profile for their names.

This message was edited 6/10/2005, 1:45 PM