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Mckenleigh

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KEN-lee
Origin
Scottish
US rank, 2025
#13,203 for girls

Mckenleigh is a girls' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).

Where does Mckenleigh come from?

Scottish: modern elaboration of Mackenzie or McKenna, with -leigh

Is Mckenleigh a girl's or a boy's name?

Mckenleigh is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mckenleigh in the US?

Rank in 2025
13,203rd among girls
Babies in 2025
6 about 1 in 270,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Mckenleigh, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 9,541st. Its busiest year was 2015, with 21 girls. It first appears in the records in 2008.

Half of all the girls named Mckenleigh in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

2008Busiest: 21 in 20152025
Mckenleigh in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20256#13,203
20240–
20237#12,192
20227#12,237
202113#8,019
202010#9,541
201915#7,338
201812#8,612
201711#9,337
201619#6,398
201521#6,034
201410#10,124
201313#8,575
201215#7,800
20118#12,146
20100–
20098#12,423
20087#13,827

Names like Mckenleigh

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mckenleigh: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckenleigh, updated 20 October 2026.