Mckinley — #742 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mckinley

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,700 babies named Mckinley between 1978 and 2024, spanning 47 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mckinley currently holds the #742 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 862 babies received it in a single year. Mckinley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 9,756 additional births since 1890.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mckinley performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,218 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mckinley shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 1,140 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Mckinley in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mckinley 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 12,700 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.