girls:
21 births since 1996
#5695 (0th percentile)
boys:
268 births since 1991
#4318 (6th percentile)
overall:
289 births since 1991
#7450 (4th percentile)
The name Mackay is the #7,450 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 289 recorded births since 1991. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,318 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 268 births since 1991. For girls, it ranks #5,695 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1996.
Mackay first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1991 (1991 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Mackay is available in 31 out of the 33 years between 1991 and 2023 (31 years for boys and 4 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mackay has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 92.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mackay reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #892) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mackay ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 59.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mackay reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #858) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mackay".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Mackay. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 31.5% confident that Mackay is pronounced as muh-KAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KAY, at 25.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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