Mckinlee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #3,644 for girls
Mckinlee is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Finlay”. In 2025 it ranked 3,644th for girls in the US (41 babies).
What does Mckinlee mean?
Scottish: variant of McKinley, from Gaelic Mac Fhionnlaigh
“son of Finlay”
McKinley is a Gaelic surname meaning 'son of Finlay'; as a girl's name it follows Mackenzie.
Is Mckinlee a girl's or a boy's name?
Mckinlee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 41 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mckinlee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #3,644among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 41about 1 in 39,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 52% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 41 girls in the US were named Mckinlee, making it the 3,644th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,991st. Its busiest year was 2014, with 102 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had fewer girls named Mckinlee than any year since 2007.
Half of all the girls named Mckinlee in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 501 girls in the US were given Mckinlee or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #592, up from #3,644 for this spelling alone.
- Mckinley 393
- Mckinlee 41
- Makinley 26
- Mckinleigh 16
- Mackinley 13
- Mckinnley 12
Mckinlee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,644 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,225 |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,225 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,312 |
| 2021 | 90 | #2,103 |
| 2020 | 94 | #1,991 |
| 2019 | 101 | #1,941 |
| 2018 | 96 | #2,026 |
| 2017 | 77 | #2,357 |
| 2016 | 95 | #2,068 |
| 2015 | 83 | #2,259 |
| 2014 | 102 | #1,956 |
| 2013 | 92 | #2,083 |
| 2012 | 85 | #2,205 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,453 |
| 2010 | 65 | #2,726 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,676 |
| 2008 | 43 | #3,709 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,917 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,164 |
| 2005 | 26 | #4,954 |
| 2004 | 28 | #4,703 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,581 |
| 2002 | 18 | #6,124 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,004 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,307 |
| 1999 | 14 | #6,830 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,576 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,563 |
Nicknames for Mckinlee
- Kinlee 71 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Mckinlee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee Teagan Brylee Mckenna Kinley Finley Rynlee Braylee Kennedy Braelynn Cassidy Brynn
Other spellings of Mckinlee
Names related to Mckinlee
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, “Mckinlee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckinlee, updated 20 October 2026.