Mckinleigh

#7,027 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Mckinleigh has been given to 493 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #7,027 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Mckinleigh, 2025

1 in 207,000

Mckinleigh over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Mckinleigh?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 207,000
16 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,027
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
143,620 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mckinleigh sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 143,620 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mckinleigh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mckinleighs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mckinleigh was born before 2016 — so the typical Mckinleigh is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
493
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 63.9% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Mckinleigh rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,746
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,614
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,350
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.53×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2018 (42)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,651
2018

Spellings of Mckinleigh

Mckinleigh is not the most common spelling — Kinleigh is, with 81.4% against Mckinleigh's 18.6%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mckinleigh is used

Across 1910–2025, Mckinleigh was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 696,996 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in —
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mckinleigh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mckinleigh by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,027
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,614
Best rank ever
#3,651
2018
Peak year
2018
42 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
493
Count in 2025
16

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Sibling names for Mckinleigh

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