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Mckay vs Mckinlee

American parents have registered 2,665 Mckays since 1880, against 1,582 Mckinlees. But in 2025 it was Mckinlee that was commoner, 41 babies to 40.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mckay against Mckinlee, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mckay Mckinlee

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 58 years in which either name was published, Mckay for 45 years and Mckinlee for 13 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Mckay Mckinlee
Total US births 2,6651,582
Most in one year 111102
Babies in 2025 4041
Estimated living today 2,6001,600
Median age today 2110
Peak year 19952014
Best rank 1,182nd boys1,956th girls
Rank in 2025 3,583rd3,645th
First recorded 19171994
Girls / boys 369 / 2,2961,582 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mckays alive today are over 21; half the Mckinlees are over 10. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mckay and Mckinlee.