Mcray
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mcray has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1934. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1934, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Mcray, 1934
1 in 415,000
Mcray over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mcray?
Mcray had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1934, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1934
- 1 in 415,000
- 5 of 2,076,780 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 207,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1934
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,904 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mcray sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1934 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,904 children born in 1934 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mcray. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mcrays were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mcray was born before 1934 — so the typical Mcray is around 91 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1930s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1930s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Mcray 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1934 (5)
- Years since peak
- 91
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mcray
Mcray is not the most common spelling — Ray is, with 61.2% against Mcray's <0.01%.
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.
Mcray by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mcray
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mcray
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.