Mckenley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KEN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Mckenley is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Finlay”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Mckenley mean?
Scottish: variant of McKinley, from Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaigh
“son of Finlay”
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States.
Is Mckenley a girl's or a boy's name?
Mckenley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mckenley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Mckenley, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 35 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the girls named Mckenley in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mckenley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,156 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 14 | #7,836 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,263 |
| 2014 | 12 | #8,961 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,642 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,107 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,356 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,179 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,676 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,525 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Nicknames for Mckenley
- Kenley 6 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Mckenley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Teagan Kinley Finley Cassidy Brynlee Kenley Keeley Kennedy Brynn Braelynn Eowyn Mckinley
Names related to Mckenley
Mckinlee Mackinley Mckynlee Mckinnley Mckenlee Makenley Makenly
More Scottish names
Isla Logan Arabella Cameron Bonnie Paisley Brody Carson Maxwell Brodie Finlay Blair Lennox Skye Knox Dallas
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, “Mckenley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckenley, updated 20 October 2026.