Meaning not yet researched.
Mckinley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 393 in 2025. Its best rank was #379 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #379 in 2015; #714 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Mckinley in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#714 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #379.
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Mckinley: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 393 girls in 2025. Peak: #379 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 862 (2014).
In 2025, 393 US girls were named Mckinley, making it the 714th most common girls’ name of the year, up 26 places from #740 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 381 girls named Mckinley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #379, reached in 2015. The most girls given the name in a single year was 862, in 2014. For comparison, it was #379 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 30 US boys were named Mckinley, making it the 3,721st most common boys’ name of the year, up 676 places from #4,397 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 24 boys named Mckinley in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #137, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 148, in 1920. For comparison, it was #1,993 in 2015 and #656 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mckinley in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1890 with 7 babies. In all, 22,884 US babies have been given the name, 57% of them girls and 43% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,928 babies named Mckinley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,609 US girls were named Mckinley; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 759. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,090 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mckinley ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #232 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mckinlee (1,582 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mckynlee, Mckinnley and Mckenley 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: Mckynlee (638), Mckinnley (578), Mckenley (348), Mckenlee (242), Mckenly (55), Mckinly (35), Mckinlie (30), Mckynley (27), Mckinli (20), Mckinlea (11), Mckinnly (5), Mckynlei (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 Mckinley in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 22 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 10 | #232 | #272 |
| Oregon | 11 | #344 | #371 |
| Iowa | 9 | #374 | #453 |
| Minnesota | 14 | #391 | #356 |
| Arkansas | 8 | #416 | #156 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #419 | #294 |
| Tennessee | 19 | #423 | #163 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #427 | #191 |
| Missouri | 14 | #437 | #267 |
| Georgia | 26 | #444 | #194 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #456 | #231 |
| Michigan | 18 | #476 | #492 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #507 | #386 |
| Ohio | 21 | #511 | #348 |
| Alabama | 10 | #515 | #228 |
| Indiana | 13 | #536 | #231 |
| Louisiana | 8 | #576 | #295 |
| South Carolina | 8 | #600 | #164 |
| Colorado | 9 | #619 | #222 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #633 | #225 |
| Kansas | 5 | #654 | #323 |
| Oklahoma | 6 | #675 | #410 |
| Utah | 6 | #680 | #274 |
| Texas | 39 | #774 | #463 |
| Virginia | 8 | #908 | #337 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,077 | #515 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,159 | #582 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,187 | #291 |
| California | 13 | #1,714 | #883 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 393 | #714 | 30 | #3,721 |
| 2024 | 381 | #740 | 24 | #4,397 |
| 2023 | 461 | #635 | 45 | #2,832 |
| 2022 | 453 | #654 | 49 | #2,702 |
| 2021 | 563 | #543 | 62 | #2,269 |
| 2020 | 536 | #555 | 63 | #2,202 |
| 2019 | 615 | #513 | 67 | #2,142 |
| 2018 | 718 | #447 | 52 | #2,498 |
| 2017 | 730 | #438 | 68 | #2,062 |
| 2016 | 759 | #428 | 68 | #2,079 |
| 2015 | 860 | #379 | 73 | #1,993 |
| 2014 | 862 | #379 | 72 | #1,991 |
| 2013 | 792 | #392 | 64 | #2,106 |
| 2012 | 682 | #458 | 84 | #1,781 |
| 2011 | 675 | #450 | 87 | #1,714 |
| 2010 | 526 | #556 | 74 | #1,921 |
| 2009 | 376 | #759 | 77 | #1,881 |
| 2008 | 309 | #900 | 61 | #2,201 |
| 2007 | 259 | #1,023 | 70 | #2,012 |
| 2006 | 274 | #953 | 79 | #1,763 |
| 2005 | 227 | #1,052 | 76 | #1,748 |
| 2004 | 219 | #1,058 | 90 | #1,500 |
| 2003 | 184 | #1,176 | 77 | #1,640 |
| 2002 | 169 | #1,203 | 99 | #1,340 |
| 2001 | 172 | #1,191 | 94 | #1,362 |
| 2000 | 176 | #1,153 | 111 | #1,218 |
| 1999 | 137 | #1,319 | 93 | #1,306 |
| 1998 | 119 | #1,441 | 90 | #1,332 |
| 1997 | 84 | #1,796 | 89 | #1,291 |
| 1996 | 90 | #1,698 | 86 | #1,287 |
| 1995 | 67 | #2,042 | 86 | #1,265 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,975 | 82 | #1,292 |
| 1993 | 39 | #3,026 | 68 | #1,414 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,746 | 64 | #1,447 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,470 | 68 | #1,378 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,341 | 57 | #1,510 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,803 | 49 | #1,632 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,498 | 40 | #1,758 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,491 | 60 | #1,266 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,014 | 44 | #1,527 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,161 | 52 | #1,342 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,515 | 38 | #1,596 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,335 | 43 | #1,461 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,936 | 39 | #1,582 |
| 1981 | — | — | 49 | #1,352 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,863 | 54 | #1,266 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,715 | 41 | #1,480 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,782 | 39 | #1,496 |
| 1977 | — | — | 55 | #1,194 |
| 1976 | — | — | 39 | #1,443 |
| 1975 | — | — | 45 | #1,294 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,869 |
| 1973 | — | — | 33 | #1,495 |
| 1972 | — | — | 40 | #1,339 |
| 1971 | — | — | 53 | #1,133 |
| 1970 | — | — | 33 | #1,485 |
| 1969 | — | — | 53 | #1,073 |
| 1968 | — | — | 45 | #1,127 |
| 1967 | — | — | 42 | #1,158 |
| 1966 | — | — | 63 | #924 |
| 1965 | — | — | 58 | #973 |
| 1964 | — | — | 74 | #890 |
| 1963 | — | — | 57 | #1,009 |
| 1962 | — | — | 62 | #970 |
| 1961 | — | — | 92 | #796 |
| 1960 | — | — | 72 | #895 |
| 1959 | — | — | 79 | #858 |
| 1958 | — | — | 85 | #817 |
| 1957 | — | — | 101 | #748 |
| 1956 | — | — | 86 | #806 |
| 1955 | — | — | 96 | #749 |
| 1954 | — | — | 107 | #704 |
| 1953 | — | — | 96 | #732 |
| 1952 | — | — | 91 | #740 |
| 1951 | — | — | 93 | #722 |
| 1950 | — | — | 114 | #656 |
| 1949 | — | — | 109 | #660 |
| 1948 | — | — | 98 | #680 |
| 1947 | — | — | 97 | #703 |
| 1946 | — | — | 82 | #725 |
| 1945 | — | — | 92 | #631 |
| 1944 | — | — | 97 | #624 |
| 1943 | — | — | 83 | #707 |
| 1942 | — | — | 96 | #659 |
| 1941 | — | — | 73 | #727 |
| 1940 | — | — | 75 | #701 |
| 1939 | — | — | 79 | #669 |
| 1938 | — | — | 82 | #665 |
| 1937 | — | — | 97 | #586 |
| 1936 | — | — | 69 | #725 |
| 1935 | — | — | 98 | #584 |
| 1934 | — | — | 80 | #679 |
| 1933 | — | — | 94 | #602 |
| 1932 | — | — | 103 | #585 |
| 1931 | — | — | 106 | #573 |
| 1930 | — | — | 107 | #581 |
| 1929 | — | — | 119 | #535 |
| 1928 | — | — | 127 | #543 |
| 1927 | — | — | 144 | #507 |
| 1926 | — | — | 123 | #550 |
| 1925 | — | — | 102 | #624 |
| 1924 | — | — | 125 | #572 |
| 1923 | — | — | 123 | #562 |
| 1922 | — | — | 136 | #537 |
| 1921 | — | — | 105 | #622 |
| 1920 | — | — | 148 | #495 |
| 1919 | — | — | 125 | #534 |
| 1918 | — | — | 108 | #587 |
| 1917 | — | — | 102 | #590 |
| 1916 | — | — | 74 | #693 |
| 1915 | — | — | 60 | #782 |
| 1914 | — | — | 54 | #708 |
| 1913 | — | — | 45 | #677 |
| 1912 | — | — | 38 | #698 |
| 1911 | — | — | 20 | #723 |
| 1910 | — | — | 27 | #553 |
| 1909 | — | — | 36 | #415 |
| 1908 | — | — | 32 | #426 |
| 1907 | — | — | 39 | #356 |
| 1906 | — | — | 35 | #352 |
| 1905 | — | — | 35 | #351 |
| 1904 | — | — | 60 | #244 |
| 1903 | — | — | 45 | #281 |
| 1902 | — | — | 58 | #244 |
| 1901 | — | — | 77 | #191 |
| 1900 | — | — | 133 | #156 |
| 1899 | — | — | 72 | #189 |
| 1898 | — | — | 79 | #192 |
| 1897 | — | — | 115 | #141 |
| 1896 | — | — | 121 | #137 |
| 1895 | — | — | 34 | #312 |
| 1894 | — | — | 19 | #453 |
| 1893 | — | — | 15 | #495 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #668 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,067 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #853 |
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).