Macon
Macon is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 201548 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1898
- 2,303people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,094 boys have been named Macon in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 48 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1976, and the 2010s alone account for 17%.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 209 girls have also been given it, 9.1% of the total.
By decade
| Decade | boys named Macon | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 5 | |
| 1900s | 31 | |
| 1910s | 178 | |
| 1920s | 220 | |
| 1930s | 159 | |
| 1940s | 179 | |
| 1950s | 121 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 94 | |
| 1980s | 94 | |
| 1990s | 171 | |
| 2000s | 228 | |
| 2010s | 365 | |
| 2020s | 154 |
In 2015, its biggest year
Macon was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Macon
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gradypeak 2008
- Conleypeak 2011
- Winslowpeak 2022
- Ferrispeak 2024
- Benedictpeak 2024
- Roccopeak 2009
- Aldenpeak 2024
- Angelopeak 2007
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.