Given name & surname · also Gaelic
Mckell
“son of the lad”
McKell is a surname from Scottish Gaelic, ultimately from Irish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
McKell goes back to a word meaning “son of the lad.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
McKell comes from Scottish Gaelic, and ultimately from Irish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1982. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mckell through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 435
- 13 boys · 422 girls
- Most popular year
- 1995
- 29 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 29 in 1995. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 542 as a first name in 2020; 657 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
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