Mackinley — #10614 US unisex name
418 babies named Mackinley in U.S. Social Security records since 1996, with the highest year being 2018. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 40% of names given to girls today.
44% of everyone ever named Mackinley was born in this single decade.
28 babies were named Mackinley in 2018 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mackinley
The Social Security Administration has registered 418 babies named Mackinley between 1996 and 2024, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mackinley currently holds the #10614 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Mackinley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 356 additional births since 1992.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mackinley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 183 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mackinley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mackinley in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 418 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mackinley at a glance
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Current rank
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Mackinley popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1996
- Peak year (2018)
- 28
- Annual births at peak — across 29 years of records
Currently ranks #10614 among girls.
418 total births across 29 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2018 with 28 births in a single year.
Mackinley popularity over time — boys
356 total births recorded since 1992 (Mackinley as boys' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The boys' variant of Mackinley accounts for 46% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mackinley by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 183 births that decade — 44% of Mackinley's all-time total
Mackinley decade highlights
- Peak decade 183 births
- Runner-up 110 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mackinley's strongest decade
183 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 44% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1996–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.