Mckinley

Where Mckinley comes from

Rare spelling variant of McKinley.
— Wiktionary's entry for Mckinley
  • 3 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1978
    First appearance
    #9,750 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1998
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2014
    Peak, #379
    862 babies named Mckinley — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #740.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name transferred from the surname.
  • A male given name transferred from the surname, briefly popular in the US when William McKinley was President (1897-1901).
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
  • An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama, United States.
  • An unorganized territory in Kittson County, Minnesota, United States.
Namesakes

No widely known Mckinley turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.