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Mckensie vs Mckinley

American parents have registered 22,884 Mckinleys since 1880, against 768 Mckensies. Mckinley is still ahead, with 423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mckensie against Mckinley, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mckensie Mckinley

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

Mckinley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1890 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1994, when Mckensie had 45 and Mckinley had 122.

Side by side

  Mckensie Mckinley
Total US births 76822,884
Most in one year 48934
Babies in 2025 under 5423
Estimated living today 76018,000
Median age today 2513
Peak year 19972014
Best rank 2,622nd girls379th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked712th
First recorded 19811890
Girls / boys 768 / 013,098 / 9,786

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 Mckensies alive today are over 25; half the Mckinleys are over 13. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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