Mckay — #3606 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mckay

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,265 babies named Mckay between 1917 and 2024, spanning 108 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mckay currently holds the #3606 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1995, when 96 babies received it in a single year. Mckay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 360 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mckay performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 647 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Mckay shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 1,160 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Idaho. In total, SSA state-level files list Mckay in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mckay 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 2,265 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.