girls:
53 births since 1918
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
10.6k births since 1880
#1129 (75th percentile)
overall:
10.7k births since 1880
#2564 (67th percentile)
The name Mac is the #2,564 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 10,668 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 66.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 66.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,129 (75.4% percentile) for all time with 10,615 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1918.
Mac has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1918 for girls). Birth data for Mac is available in 139 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (139 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mac has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mac reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 48.4% percentile (ranked #285) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 283 births per million (ranked 48.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mac ranks #540 for boys (40.8% percentile) with 228 births per million, which is 80.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mac reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #943) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1925, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mac ranks #943 for girls (0.4% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 92.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mac".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mac. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mac is pronounced as mak, which has 1 syllables.
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