Mckay
Mckay is given to both girls and boys: 9 girls and 31 boys were given it in 2025 (#10,615 among girls’ names and #3,628 among boys’, #6,577 among all names counting both); 2,665 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,580 Americans named Mckay and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mckay?
#3,628 among boys’ names, 2025
Mckay fell from #2,840 in 2015 to #3,628 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 21.9 to 18.1 per million.
111 babies in 1995, the peak
Mckay peaked in 1995, when 111 babies were given it (96 boys, #1,180 among boys’ names). The 40 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 36% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,615 | 31 | #3,628 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,991 | 31 | #3,658 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,795 | 32 | #3,598 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,436 | 44 | #2,898 |
| 2021 | 9 | #10,826 | 48 | #2,681 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,685 | 36 | #3,178 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 45 | #2,790 | |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,312 | 46 | #2,691 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,617 | 32 | #3,490 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,571 | 56 | #2,357 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,925 | 42 | #2,840 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,689 | 56 | #2,333 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,641 | 64 | #2,104 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,908 | 57 | #2,283 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,474 | 67 | #2,030 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,236 | 72 | #1,948 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,200 | 56 | #2,339 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,852 | 55 | #2,367 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,477 | 70 | #2,011 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,447 | 69 | #1,960 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,676 | 57 | #2,152 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,088 | 66 | #1,868 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,349 | 64 | #1,861 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,581 | 74 | #1,629 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,033 | 71 | #1,650 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,947 | 65 | #1,732 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,142 | 73 | #1,538 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,586 | 65 | #1,612 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,068 | 74 | #1,459 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,996 | 84 | #1,310 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,154 | 96 | #1,180 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,201 | 68 | #1,427 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,210 | 53 | #1,671 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,496 | 48 | #1,765 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,897 | 29 | #2,439 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 23 | #2,831 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 32 | #2,182 | |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,140 | 16 | #3,297 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 18 | #2,906 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 28 | #2,083 | |
| 1985 | under 5 | 17 | #2,904 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 13 | #3,388 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 16 | #2,869 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,604 | 11 | #3,855 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 15 | #2,982 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 11 | #3,758 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 14 | #3,108 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 14 | #3,021 | |
| 1977 | under 5 | 8 | #4,442 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 10 | #3,634 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 10 | #3,583 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,486 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 9 | #2,987 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 5 | #4,021 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 5 | #4,590 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 7 | #3,693 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 7 | #3,747 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 6 | #3,826 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mckay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,665 Americans recorded as Mckay, 14% are girls and 86% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mckay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckay, and how old are they?
2,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,665 Americans ever recorded as Mckay. The median Mckay alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,455 people named Mckay (392 women and girls, 2,063 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,332 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 624 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,220 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 657 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mckay born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 17 | #296 | 33.5× |
| Idaho | 5 | #472 | 7.0× |
Where Mckay is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mckay is most over-represented in Utah: since 1917 it was given 33.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mckay with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 13,475 babies since 1880, Mckay is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 40 of their 683 babies (5.9%), 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 Mckay
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 Mckay and names like it
- Compare Mckay and MakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMckay peaked in 1995.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mckay since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Mckay.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mckay alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.