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How popular is “Mckay” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mckay” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mckay” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mckay” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mckay” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mckay” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mckay” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mckay” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1917 6 0.00000299 6 -100%
1922 7 0.000003058 7 -100%
1923 7 0.00000304 7 -100%
1927 5 0.000002156 5 -100%
1934 5 0.000002408 5 -100%
1963 9 0.000002274 9 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1975 10 0.000003312 10 -100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1978 14 0.000004411 14 -100%
1979 14 0.000004208 14 -100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 -100%
1981 15 0.000004336 15 -100%
1982 16 0.000004561 5 11 -38%
1983 16 0.00000462 16 -100%
1984 13 0.000003726 13 -100%
1985 17 0.000004763 17 -100%
1986 28 0.000007872 28 -100%
1987 18 0.000004992 18 -100%
1988 25 0.000006766 9 16 -28%
1989 32 0.000008324 32 -100%
1990 23 0.000005819 23 -100%
1991 37 0.000009499 8 29 -57%
1992 58 0.000015099 10 48 -66%
1993 61 0.000016179 8 53 -74%
1994 83 0.000022326 15 68 -64%
1995 111 0.00003031 15 96 -73%
1996 97 0.000026596 13 84 -73%
1997 90 0.000024822 16 74 -64%
1998 80 0.00002175 15 65 -63%
1999 94 0.000025448 21 73 -55%
2000 76 0.000020106 11 65 -71%
2001 84 0.00002244 13 71 -69%
2002 91 0.000024343 17 74 -63%
2003 71 0.000018673 7 64 -80%
2004 80 0.000020937 14 66 -65%
2005 70 0.000018206 13 57 -63%
2006 75 0.000018958 6 69 -84%
2007 78 0.000019511 8 70 -79%
2008 62 0.000015773 7 55 -77%
2009 61 0.000015968 5 56 -84%
2010 83 0.000022458 11 72 -73%
2011 81 0.000022145 14 67 -65%
2012 66 0.000018046 9 57 -73%
2013 73 0.000020024 9 64 -75%
2014 64 0.000017268 8 56 -75%
2015 53 0.000014321 11 42 -58%
2016 62 0.0000169 6 56 -81%
2017 39 0.000010905 7 32 -64%
2018 51 0.000014506 5 46 -80%
2019 45 0.000012965 45 -100%
2020 41 0.000012273 5 36 -76%
2021 57 0.000016824 9 48 -68%
2022 55 0.000016257 11 44 -60%
2023 44 0.000013288 12 32 -45%
2024 38 0.000011417 7 31 -63%

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