Mckay
Mckay reached its high-water mark in 1995 at number 1,182, and has been recorded 2,665 times in all. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 2,600 Mckays are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 21.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mckay boys named Mckay
Girls and boys called Mckay
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 369 girls and 2,296 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 9 to 31.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 38 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,665
- Estimated living today
- 2,600
- Median age today
- 21
- Peak year
- 1995
- Best rank
- 1,182nd
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1917
- Girls / boys
- 369 / 2,296
How old the living Mckays are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,665 babies given the name since 1917, about 2,600 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 1 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Mckay is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mckay is most concentrated in Utah (97.5×), Idaho (18.3×), Arizona (2.2×), California (0.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1995
The most popular boys’ names the year Mckay peaked:
Related names
Mckay against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.