Mckay
Mckay is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 31 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 310.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 199596 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1917
- 2,625people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,265 boys have been named Mckay in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1995, with 96 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2003, and the 2000s alone account for 29%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 360 girls have also been given it, 14% of the total.
By decade
In 1995, its biggest year
Mckay was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1995 were Michael, Matthew, Christopher, Jacob and Joshua. See all of 1995.
Names that rose and fell with Mckay
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Destinpeak 2001
- Markelpeak 1999
- Chancepeak 1996
- Cameronpeak 2000
- Nikolaspeak 2004
- Markellpeak 2005
- Garrisonpeak 1999
- Quranpeak 1997
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.