Mckay
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
- Given to boys 86.2% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1995 · 96 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,296since 1917
Mckay over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,107 | 9 | #3,583 | 31 |
| 2024 | #12,161 | 7 | #3,605 | 31 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | #3,566 | 32 |
| 2022 | #9,056 | 11 | #2,873 | 44 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 | #2,652 | 48 |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #3,136 | 36 |
| 2019 | — | #2,766 | 45 | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | #2,674 | 46 |
| 2017 | #12,713 | 7 | #3,440 | 32 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #2,335 | 56 |
| 2015 | #9,481 | 11 | #2,809 | 42 |
| 2014 | #11,931 | 8 | #2,317 | 56 |
| 2013 | #11,000 | 9 | #2,090 | 64 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #2,270 | 57 |
| 2011 | #8,196 | 14 | #2,017 | 67 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #1,940 | 72 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #2,320 | 56 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,345 | 55 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #1,995 | 70 |
| 2006 | #15,152 | 6 | #1,943 | 69 |
| 2005 | #8,330 | 13 | #2,129 | 57 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 | #1,857 | 66 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #1,845 | 64 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | #1,620 | 74 |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | #1,648 | 71 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 | #1,725 | 65 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #1,531 | 73 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #1,605 | 65 |
| 1997 | #5,868 | 16 | #1,456 | 74 |
| 1996 | #6,723 | 13 | #1,303 | 84 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | #1,182 | 96 |
| 1994 | #5,984 | 15 | #1,421 | 68 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,662 | 53 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,750 | 48 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | — | #2,780 | 23 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,154 | 32 | |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #3,203 | 16 |
| 1987 | — | #2,838 | 18 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,057 | 28 | |
| 1985 | — | #2,828 | 17 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,270 | 13 | |
| 1983 | — | #2,787 | 16 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #3,692 | 11 |
| 1981 | — | #2,898 | 15 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,615 | 11 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,018 | 14 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,929 | 14 | |
| 1977 | — | #4,164 | 8 | |
| 1976 | — | #3,471 | 10 | |
| 1975 | — | #3,428 | 10 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
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| 1934 | — | #3,679 | 5 | |
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| 1927 | — | #4,210 | 5 | |
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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1917
The first year at least five boys were named Mckay! It came in at #3,545, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1918–1921, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Mckay is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #288 | 17 | 1 in 1,157 |
| Idaho | #435 | 5 | 1 in 1,726 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mckay
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 22 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #3,583)
- 447 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #3,583)
Rise & fade · boys
78 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1995 at #1,182 (96 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 20 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 19,830
- Highest: 1 in 19,830 boys born in 1995 were named Mckay (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 28.2% of all boys named Mckay (647) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 6 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,545 |
| 1920s | 19 | #3,467 (1923) | #3,736 |
| 1930s | 5 | #3,679 (1934) | #3,679 |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 9 | #2,858 (1963) | #2,858 |
| 1970s | 61 | #2,929 (1978) | #3,666 |
| 1980s | 177 | #2,057 (1986) | #2,934 |
| 1990s | 613 | #1,182 (1995) | #1,710 |
| 2000s | 647 | #1,620 (2002) | #1,943 |
| 2010s | 537 | #1,940 (2010) | #2,466 |
| 2020s | 222 | #2,652 (2021) | #3,236 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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