Mac
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #695 for boys in 2025, 390 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1942 · 398 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 11,397since 1880
Mac over time
Rank among boys' names. Mac has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #695 | 390 |
| 2024 | — | #695 | 389 | |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #656 | 417 |
| 2022 | #15,306 | 5 | #605 | 465 |
| 2021 | — | #673 | 401 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #934 | 237 |
| 2019 | — | #868 | 254 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,005 | 206 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,066 | 185 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,121 | 174 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,096 | 177 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,158 | 163 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,141 | 159 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,212 | 147 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,476 | 110 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,425 | 116 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,604 | 99 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,752 | 86 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,728 | 86 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,790 | 77 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,206 | 54 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,164 | 54 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,781 | 67 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,723 | 67 | |
| 2001 | #15,352 | 5 | #1,912 | 57 |
| 2000 | — | #1,830 | 58 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,749 | 58 | |
| 1998 | — | #2,235 | 40 | |
| 1997 | — | #2,228 | 38 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #2,017 | 43 |
| 1995 | — | #2,178 | 37 | |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #2,123 | 38 |
| 1993 | — | #2,162 | 36 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,955 | 41 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,823 | 43 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,702 | 47 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,953 | 37 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,671 | 42 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,760 | 37 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,057 | 28 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,644 | 38 | |
| 1984 | — | #1,531 | 40 | |
| 1983 | — | #1,955 | 27 | |
| 1982 | — | #1,774 | 32 | |
| 1981 | — | #1,373 | 47 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,238 | 55 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,089 | 67 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,134 | 60 | |
| 1977 | — | #1,054 | 67 | |
| 1976 | — | #878 | 90 | |
| 1975 | — | #811 | 105 | |
| 1974 | — | #977 | 70 | |
| 1973 | — | #1,082 | 56 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,262 | 43 | |
| 1971 | — | #1,526 | 32 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,080 | 57 | |
| 1969 | — | #1,396 | 33 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,258 | 36 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,071 | 47 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,016 | 51 | |
| 1965 | — | #866 | 72 | |
| 1964 | — | #1,147 | 45 | |
| 1963 | — | #994 | 58 | |
| 1962 | — | #917 | 68 | |
| 1961 | — | #967 | 63 | |
| 1960 | — | #916 | 68 | |
| 1959 | — | #919 | 69 | |
| 1958 | — | #807 | 86 | |
| 1957 | — | #853 | 77 | |
| 1956 | — | #897 | 69 | |
| 1955 | — | #760 | 92 | |
| 1954 | — | #778 | 84 | |
| 1953 | — | #759 | 88 | |
| 1952 | — | #647 | 115 | |
| 1951 | — | #626 | 127 | |
| 1950 | — | #623 | 122 | |
| 1949 | — | #669 | 106 | |
| 1948 | — | #661 | 105 | |
| 1947 | — | #576 | 138 | |
| 1946 | — | #523 | 150 | |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | #501 | 142 |
| 1944 | — | #434 | 197 | |
| 1943 | — | #397 | 238 | |
| 1942 | — | #308 | 398 | |
| 1941 | — | #683 | 80 | |
| 1940 | — | #711 | 73 | |
| 1939 | — | #621 | 88 | |
| 1938 | — | #690 | 77 | |
| 1937 | — | #722 | 70 | |
| 1936 | — | #679 | 76 | |
| 1935 | — | #741 | 68 | |
| 1934 | — | #650 | 86 | |
| 1933 | — | #685 | 75 | |
| 1932 | — | #746 | 70 | |
| 1931 | — | #711 | 73 | |
| 1930 | — | #782 | 67 | |
| 1929 | — | #794 | 66 | |
| 1928 | — | #913 | 54 | |
| 1927 | — | #774 | 72 | |
| 1926 | — | #842 | 61 | |
| 1925 | #4,028 | 7 | #755 | 76 |
| 1924 | — | #817 | 68 | |
| 1923 | — | #750 | 76 | |
| 1922 | — | #882 | 61 | |
| 1921 | — | #804 | 71 | |
| 1920 | — | #766 | 74 | |
| 1919 | — | #720 | 77 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #743 | 75 |
| 1917 | — | #694 | 76 | |
| 1916 | — | #840 | 55 | |
| 1915 | — | #741 | 65 | |
| 1914 | — | #802 | 43 | |
| 1913 | — | #818 | 34 | |
| 1912 | — | #713 | 36 | |
| 1911 | — | #667 | 22 | |
| 1910 | — | #755 | 16 | |
| 1909 | — | #679 | 16 | |
| 1908 | — | #779 | 12 | |
| 1907 | — | #511 | 21 | |
| 1906 | — | #472 | 22 | |
| 1905 | — | #1,002 | 7 | |
| 1904 | — | #566 | 16 | |
| 1903 | — | #1,130 | 5 | |
| 1902 | — | #862 | 8 | |
| 1901 | — | #727 | 9 | |
| 1900 | — | #743 | 12 | |
| 1899 | — | — | ||
| 1898 | — | #1,002 | 6 | |
| 1897 | — | #852 | 7 | |
| 1896 | — | #641 | 12 | |
| 1895 | — | — | ||
| 1894 | — | #954 | 6 | |
| 1893 | — | #1,035 | 5 | |
| 1892 | — | #956 | 6 | |
| 1891 | — | #963 | 5 | |
| 1890 | — | #884 | 6 | |
| 1889 | — | #974 | 5 | |
| 1888 | — | #609 | 11 | |
| 1887 | — | #921 | 5 | |
| 1886 | — | #959 | 5 | |
| 1885 | — | — | ||
| 1884 | — | — | ||
| 1883 | — | #892 | 5 | |
| 1882 | — | — | ||
| 1881 | — | #706 | 7 | |
| 1880 | — | #745 | 7 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Mac was already there! It came in at #745, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1882–1887, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mac
- Held #695 since 2024
- 239 spots since 2020 (#934 → #695)
- 401 spots since 2015 (#1,096 → #695)
- Biggest jump: 564 spots in 1904 (#1,130 → #566)
- Biggest drop: 436 spots in 1905 (#566 → #1,002)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1942 at #308 (398 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 86 yrs · run 1906–1963
- Highest: 1 in 3,470 boys born in 1942 were named Mac (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,380 boys born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 20.2% of all boys named Mac (2,299) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 45 | #609 (1888) | #829 |
| 1890s | 53 | #641 (1896) | #911 |
| 1900s | 128 | #472 (1906) | #747 |
| 1910s | 499 | #667 (1911) | #749 |
| 1920s | 679 | #750 (1923) | #810 |
| 1930s | 750 | #621 (1939) | #703 |
| 1940s | 1,627 | #308 (1942) | #546 |
| 1950s | 929 | #623 (1950) | #767 |
| 1960s | 541 | #866 (1965) | #1,055 |
| 1970s | 647 | #811 (1975) | #1,089 |
| 1980s | 383 | #1,238 (1980) | #1,696 |
| 1990s | 421 | #1,702 (1990) | #2,017 |
| 2000s | 705 | #1,604 (2009) | #1,849 |
| 2010s | 1,691 | #868 (2019) | #1,157 |
| 2020s | 2,299 | #605 (2022) | #710 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mac in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
girls
1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 321,453 of them was named Mac, which outranked 13.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
Tied with 2,355 names at #14,942; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 4,380 of them was named Mac, which outranked 95.0% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).