Mac

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Mac is ranked 696th among boys in 2024 (387 births). Its best rank was 308th, in 1942.

Rank in 2024: #696down 40 from 2023
Births in 2024: 3870.02% of boys
Peak year: 2022465 births
Best rank: #308in 1942
Since 1880: 11,005people given the name

Babies named Mac, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

11,005 boys have been named Mac in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2022, with 465 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1974, and the 2020s alone account for 17%. It has spent 79 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Mac
1880s	45
1890s	53
1900s	128
1910s	499
1920s	679
1930s	750
1940s	1,627
1950s	929
1960s	542
1970s	647
1980s	383
1990s	421
2000s	705
2010s	1,691
2020s	1,906

In 2022, its biggest year

Mac was the 605th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2022 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2022.

Names that rose and fell with Mac

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Mack42,049 ever

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.