Mckinnley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-KIN-lee
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Mckinnley is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of Finlay”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Mckinnley mean?
Scottish: spelling of Mckinley; Gaelic surname MacFhionnlaigh
“son of Finlay”
From the Scottish surname MacFhionnlaigh, son of Finlay; borne by US president William McKinley.
Meaning borrowed from Mckinley. More on Wiktionary.
Is Mckinnley a girl's or a boy's name?
Mckinnley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mckinnley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #8,360among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Mckinnley, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,919th. Its busiest year was 2011, with 42 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
Half of all the girls named Mckinnley in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2017, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 501 girls in the US were given Mckinnley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #592, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
- Mckinley 393
- Mckinlee 41
- Makinley 26
- Mckinleigh 16
- Mackinley 13
- Mckinnley 12
In 2017, 85% of the babies named Mckinnley in the US were girls.
Mckinnley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 16 | #6,928 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,625 |
| 2020 | 16 | #6,919 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,694 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,693 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,914 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,711 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,141 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,251 |
| 2011 | 42 | #3,658 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,106 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,314 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,140 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,254 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,233 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Mckinnley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kinley Finley Teagan Brynlee Cassidy Kennedy Kenley Mckenna Keeley Braelynn Brynn Eowyn
Other spellings of Mckinnley
Names related to Mckinnley
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, “Mckinnley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckinnley, updated 20 October 2026.