Mckenleigh
Mckenleigh was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,335 among girls’ names; 182 Americans have been recorded with it since 2008 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mckenleigh by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mckenleigh?
#14,335 among girls’ names, 2025
Mckenleigh fell from #6,169 in 2015 to #14,335 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 11.8 to 3.7 per million.
21 babies in 2015, the peak
Mckenleigh peaked in 2015, when 21 girls were given it, #6,169 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,335 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,993 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,111 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,315 | 7.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #10,018 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,585 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,976 | 7.1 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,729 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,587 | 10.7 |
| 2015 | 21 | #6,169 | 11.8 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 10 | #10,664 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,888 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,065 | 8.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,959 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,264 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,853 | 3.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mckenleigh a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mckenleigh has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mckenleigh: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mckenleigh, and how old are they?
An estimated 181 Americans named Mckenleigh and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 7 and 13. 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 that rose and fell in the same decades as Mckenleigh
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.