A FIELD REPORT ON THE NAME

Mckinley

/məˈkɪnli/ · unisex name · № 712 of 1,000
presidential · collegiate · twenty-tens

Origin & Meaning

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Derived from the Gaelic patronymic Mac Fhionnlaoich, meaning son of Finlay. It first appeared on American birth certificates in the 1890s as a tribute to William McKinley. A century later, parents revived it as a predominantly female given name.
Also answers toKinley, Mickey, Mac

Fig. 1 — Births per annum, 1890–2025

SSA Data
1890 peak: 934 souls, A.D. 2014 2025
2025: 423 born, falling ↘
Estimated Age
21 yrs
Most Mckinleys were born around 2014 — remembers Vine, barely.
Peak Reign
2014
№379 that year
Generation
Gen Alpha, 49%
then Gen Z 33% · Millennial 7%
Rarity
Top 2000 all-time
≈23K ever born · now falling
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Mckinley grew up with

SSA Data
TikTok·Among Us·Zoom school

Generation Distribution — Living Mckinleys

SSA Data
Boomer 6%Gen X 4%Millennial 7%Gen Z 33%Gen Alpha 49%

Data vs. Humans

What the data says

SSA Data
SSA: Mckinley peaked in 2014.
Estimated average age: 21.

What people think

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First Impressions

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The name reads squarely as twenty-first-century American, regardless of its nineteenth-century White House ties. Most listeners picture someone born during the Obama administration with a color-coded sports calendar. The lowercase k variant often spends its life being manually capitalized on official forms.

Field Notes

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Field Note 01
Nearly half of all living holders belong to Generation Alpha.
Field Note 02
Though first recorded in 1890, the name waited one hundred and twenty-four years to reach its peak in 2014 with 934 births.
Field Note 03
The gender balance shifted over time to fifty-seven percent female in contemporary counts.

Notable Mckinleys

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McKinley Morganfieldblues musician known as Muddy Waters, b. 1913
McKinley Belcher IIIactor, b. 1984
McKinley Freemanactor and producer, b. 1985

Adjacent Names

Ephemera — If Mckinley were a…

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City
Anchorage, Alaska
Color
Spruce green
Artifact
Insulated water bottle covered in state park stickers
Job
Youth soccer referee
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