girls:
5 births since 2016
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
389 births since 1998
#4197 (8th percentile)
overall:
394 births since 1998
#7345 (5th percentile)
The name Macallan is the #7,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 394 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,197 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 389 births since 1998. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2016.
Macallan first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (1998 for boys and 2016 for girls). Birth data for Macallan is available in 23 out of the 26 years between 1998 and 2023 (23 years for boys and 1 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 Macallan has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Macallan reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.6% percentile (ranked #891) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Macallan ranks #881 for boys (3.3% percentile) with 19 births per million, which is 94.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Macallan reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macallan".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Macallan. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.6% confident that Macallan is pronounced as muh-KA-luhn, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KUH-luhn, at 11.1% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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