Macon

Where Macon comes from

Macon hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1898
    First appearance
    #1,121 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #966
    7 babies named Macon — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1932
    Macon McCalman born
    American actor
  5. 1974
    Macon Blair born
    American film actor, line producer, and screenwriter
  6. 1980
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Macon Blair · American film actor, line producer, and screenwriter, born 1974
  • Macon McCalman · American actor, 1932–2005

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.