Meaning not yet researched.
Makinley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 26 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,341 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,341 in 2013; #5,052 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Makinley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,052 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #1,341.
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Makinley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 26 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,341 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 174 (2013).
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Makinley, making it the 5,052nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 960 places from #4,092 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 36 girls named Makinley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,341, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 174. For comparison, it was #1,970 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Makinley in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1996 with 6 babies. In all, 1,852 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,122 babies named Makinley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 579 US girls were named Makinley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,818 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Makynlee (676 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mackinley, Makinlee and Makenlee are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mackinley (787), Makinlee (470), Makenlee (359), Makenley (273), Makenly (115), Mackinlee (75), Makinly (45), Makinnley (41), Makynley (25), Makynlei (15), Mackenley (15), Makenlei (13), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Makinley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,052 | — | — |
| 2024 | 36 | #4,092 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,162 | — | — |
| 2022 | 45 | #3,515 | — | — |
| 2021 | 63 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,920 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 2018 | 78 | #2,354 | — | — |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,249 | — | — |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,077 | — | — |
| 2015 | 102 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 2014 | 132 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 2013 | 174 | #1,341 | — | — |
| 2012 | 142 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,627 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,729 | — | — |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,609 | — | — |
| 2008 | 69 | #2,678 | — | — |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,952 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,423 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,381 | — | — |
| 2001 | 27 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 2000 | 19 | #5,851 | — | — |
| 1999 | 20 | #5,354 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,011 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,178 | — | — |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,831 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).