Meaning not yet researched.
Mckay: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,184 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,184 in 1995; #3,629 in 2025. About 78% of babies named Mckay in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,629 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,184.
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Mckay: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,184 in 1995 · most boys in one year: 96 (1995).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Mckay, making it the 3,629th most common boys’ name of the year, up 31 places from #3,660 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 31 boys named Mckay in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,184, reached in 1995. That year also had the most boys given the name: 96. For comparison, it was #2,841 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Mckay, making it the 10,619th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,377 places from #12,996 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 7 girls named Mckay in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,148, reached in 1999. That year also had the most girls given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #9,930 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mckay in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 2,665 US babies have been given the name, 14% of them girls and 86% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 748 babies named Mckay.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 401 US boys were named Mckay; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Mckai, Mkai and Mckaya are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mckai (79), Mkai (70), Mckaya (23), Mckae (6), Mccai (6), Mckaye (5).
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 Mckay 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 | 9 | #10,619 | 31 | #3,629 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,996 | 31 | #3,660 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,800 | 32 | #3,600 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,441 | 44 | #2,900 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,831 | 48 | #2,682 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,690 | 36 | #3,180 |
| 2019 | — | — | 45 | #2,791 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,317 | 46 | #2,692 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,621 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,576 | 56 | #2,357 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,930 | 42 | #2,841 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,695 | 56 | #2,335 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,646 | 64 | #2,105 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,914 | 57 | #2,284 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,478 | 67 | #2,031 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,240 | 72 | #1,949 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,206 | 56 | #2,340 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,858 | 55 | #2,368 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,483 | 70 | #2,011 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,452 | 69 | #1,961 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,681 | 57 | #2,156 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,093 | 66 | #1,872 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,356 | 64 | #1,864 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,587 | 74 | #1,632 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,040 | 71 | #1,654 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,955 | 65 | #1,736 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,148 | 73 | #1,541 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,591 | 65 | #1,615 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,072 | 74 | #1,462 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,001 | 84 | #1,312 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,159 | 96 | #1,184 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,207 | 68 | #1,431 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,216 | 53 | #1,676 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,503 | 48 | #1,770 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,904 | 29 | #2,445 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,837 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,188 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,145 | 16 | #3,302 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,910 |
| 1986 | — | — | 28 | #2,085 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,907 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,390 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,870 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,608 | 11 | #3,857 |
| 1981 | — | — | 15 | #2,984 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,759 |
| 1979 | — | — | 14 | #3,109 |
| 1978 | — | — | 14 | #3,022 |
| 1977 | — | — | 8 | #4,444 |
| 1976 | — | — | 10 | #3,636 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,585 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,488 |
| 1963 | — | — | 9 | #2,988 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,023 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,592 |
| 1923 | — | — | 7 | #3,696 |
| 1922 | — | — | 7 | #3,749 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,827 |
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).