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
- 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
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,532 | 7 | |
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| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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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 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#106 · 1 in 412
- Idaho#212 · 1 in 915
Best ever in a state: #86 in Utah, 1995.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #106 | 46 | 1 in 412 |
| Idaho | #212 | 8 | 1 in 915 |
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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
- 22 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #3,583)
- 447 spots since 2020 (#3,136 → #3,583)
- 774 spots since 2015 (#2,809 → #3,583)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1995 at #1,182 (96 births)
- Births halved by 2015, 20 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 28.2% of all boys named Mckay (647) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
Mckay in 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 134,847 of them was named Mckay, which outranked 57.7% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #6,392Yisel14
- #6,392Yosselin14
- #6,392Zelda14
- #6,723Mckay13
- #6,723Aalyah13
- #6,723Abreanna13
- #6,723Adrionna13
- #7,130Aalyiah12
- #7,130Abagayle12
- #7,130Abelina12
Tied with 406 names at #6,723; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 22,551 of them was named Mckay, which outranked 87.6% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,292Skye85
- #1,292Tylar85
- #1,292Zaire85
- #1,303Mckay84
- #1,303Blaze84
- #1,303Brandin84
- #1,303Diamond84
- #1,314Alphonso83
- #1,314Briar83
- #1,314Eliot83
Tied with 10 names at #1,303; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.