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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| 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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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.
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 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 117,237 of them was named Mckay, which outranked 62.2% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,677Zahara16
- #5,677Zofia16
- #5,677Zoi16
- #5,958Mckay15
- #5,958Adeja15
- #5,958Adi15
- #5,958Adrionna15
- #6,257Aaliyha14
- #6,257Aalyiah14
- #6,257Abagael14
Tied with 298 names at #5,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 19,830 of them was named Mckay, which outranked 88.6% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,172Marty97
- #1,172Omari97
- #1,172Paxton97
- #1,182Mckay96
- #1,182London96
- #1,182Louie96
- #1,182Shlomo96
- #1,187Daren95
- #1,187Darrick95
- #1,187Reilly95
Tied with 4 names at #1,182; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.