Makynlee
Makynlee was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,244 among girls’ names; 676 Americans have been recorded with it since 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Makynlee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Makynlee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Makynlee is “a female given name transferred from the surname.”
Variant of McKinley.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Makynlee?
#9,244 among girls’ names, 2025
Makynlee fell from #2,875 in 2015 to #9,244 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 6.8 per million.
64 babies in 2012, the peak
Makynlee peaked in 2012, when 64 girls were given it, #2,755 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,244 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,752 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,885 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,612 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,500 | 14.0 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,613 | 17.9 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,974 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 33 | #4,299 | 19.4 |
| 2017 | 39 | #3,895 | 22.6 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,132 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (23)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,875 | 34.2 |
| 2014 | 63 | #2,766 | 35.3 |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,151 | 29.6 |
| 2012 | 64 | #2,755 | 36.3 |
| 2011 | 61 | #2,857 | 34.7 |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,186 | 29.3 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,228 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,294 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,934 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,119 | 5.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,270 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,031 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,639 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Makynlee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Makynlee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 23 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Makynlee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Makynlee, and how old are they?
An estimated 671 Americans named Makynlee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 8 and 15. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 3,970 babies since 1880, Makynlee is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 50 babies (22%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Makynlee
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Makynlee and names like it
- Compare Makynlee and MakinleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMakynlee peaked in 2012.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Makynlee since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Makynlee: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2012The year the most babies were named Makynlee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Makynlee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.