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Mckinsey

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-KIN-zee
Origin
Scottish

Mckinsey is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of the handsome one”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Mckinsey mean?

Scottish: respelling of Mackenzie or McKinsey, from Gaelic MacCoinnich

“son of the handsome one”

A variant of Mackenzie, an Anglicised Gaelic surname meaning 'son of Coinneach'.

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

Mckinsey is a girls' name.

How popular is Mckinsey in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2006, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 1979.

Half of all the girls named Mckinsey in the US since 1880 were born between 1996 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1979Busiest: 55 in 20062023
Mckinsey in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20235#15,188
20227#12,237
202116#6,962
20209#10,245
201920#5,982
201822#5,615
201719#6,283
201620#6,184
201518#6,719
201420#6,205
201323#5,642
201235#4,214
201129#4,806
201025#5,412
200938#4,012
200829#5,011
200737#4,130
200655#3,053
200539#3,726
200443#3,440
200335#3,865
200241#3,330
200150#2,877
200037#3,522
199933#3,635
199831#3,727
199748#2,619
199642#2,845
199522#4,513
199435#3,229
199330#3,580
199234#3,261
199133#3,295
199019#4,863
19896#10,841
198812#6,272
198711#6,330
19869#7,130
19858#7,560
19846#9,139
19839#6,703
19827#8,222
19810–
19807#8,177
19796#9,008

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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, “Mckinsey: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mckinsey, updated 20 October 2026.