Mackay

girls:

21 births since 1996

#5695 (0th percentile)

boys:

268 births since 1991

#4318 (6th percentile)

overall:

289 births since 1991

#7450 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mackay".

1991 2023 19912023

Key Statistics

Total Births
21
Peak Births
6
Peak Year
1996
First Recorded
1996
Peak Percentile
0.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#858
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
268
Peak Births
13
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
1991
Peak Percentile
0.9%
Current Percentile
0.2%
Peak Rank
#760
Current Rank
#909
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Mackay

Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Mackay. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 31.5% confident that Mackay is pronounced as muh-KAI. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KAY, at 25.9% confidence.

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muh-KAY (2 syllables)
Verified
25.9% confidence
M AH0 K EY1
MA-kay (2 syllables)
16.7% confidence
M AE1 K EY0
MA-kai (2 syllables)
7.4% confidence
M AE1 K AY0
MA-KAY (2 syllables)
5.6% confidence
M AE1 K EY1
muh-kai (2 syllables)
5.6% confidence
M AH0 K AY0
muh-kay (2 syllables)
3.7% confidence
M AH0 K EY0
ma-KAI (2 syllables)
3.7% confidence
M AE0 K AY1

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Mackay. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Mackay, please vote using the thumbs up button.

MAY-kai (2 syllables)
1 name 390 births
M EY1 K AY0

Names with this pronunciation:

mah-KAI-ee (3 syllables)
1 name 89 births
M AA0 K AY1 IY0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 K AY1) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.