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Mack

boys’ nameRisingCompare

Mack is ranked 498th among boys in 2024 (612 births). Its best rank was 96th, in 1900.

Rank in 2024
#498up 47 from 2023
Births in 2024
6120.04% of boys
Peak year
1942840 births
Best rank
#96in 1900
Since 1880
42,049people given the name
Babies named Mack, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

42,049 boys have been named Mack in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1942, with 840 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 805 → 498).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1940s alone account for 13%. It has spent 124 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 1 of them in the top 100.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
#1#250#500#750#100018801900192019401960198020002020

By decade

Decadeboys named Mack
1880s1,062
1890s1,370
1900s1,562
1910s3,892
1920s5,459
1930s4,636
1940s5,647
1950s4,212
1960s2,715
1970s1,741
1980s1,305
1990s1,019
2000s1,270
2010s3,200
2020s2,959

In 1942, its biggest year

Mack was the 190th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1942 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1942.

Names that rose and fell with Mack

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

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.