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Mckinley vs Mckinsey

American parents have registered 22,884 Mckinleys since 1880, against 1,102 Mckinseys. Mckinley is still ahead, with 423 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mckinley Mckinsey

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 1991, when Mckinley had 82 and Mckinsey had 33.

Side by side

  Mckinley Mckinsey
Total US births 22,8841,102
Most in one year 93455
Babies in 2025 423under 5
Estimated living today 18,0001,100
Median age today 1323
Peak year 20142006
Best rank 379th girls3,054th girls
Rank in 2025 712thunranked
First recorded 18901954
Girls / boys 13,098 / 9,7861,080 / 22

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 Mckinseys alive today are over 23; half the Mckinleys are over 13. That is 10 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: Mckinley and Mckinsey.