Macklin

Where Macklin comes from

Ultimately from Irish Mac Gille Eoin.
— Wiktionary's entry for Macklin
Along the way
  1. 1922
    First appearance
    #4,307 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1994
    Macklin Robinson born
    American soccer player
  3. 2025
    Peak, #998
    228 babies named Macklin — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname
Namesakes
  • Macklin Robinson · American soccer player, born 1994

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.