Mckai
Mckai was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 79 Americans have been recorded with it between 2004 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mckai?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,409, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
10 babies in 2022, the peak
Mckai peaked in 2022, when 10 boys were given it, #8,104 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #10,409 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 10 | #8,104 | 5.7 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,660 | 3.4 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,636 | 5.0 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,244 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,560 | 4.7 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,398 | 3.7 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,374 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,502 | 3.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #13,335 | 2.4 |
Every recorded year (11)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,562 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mckai has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 11 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mckai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckai, and how old are they?
An estimated 78 Americans named Mckai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. 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
Mckai is a less common spelling of Mckay: SSA has recorded 79 Mckai and 2,665 Mckay since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mckai
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.