boys:
2.8k births since 1903
#2401 (48th percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1903
#5135 (34th percentile)
The name Macario is the #5,135 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,760 recorded births since 1903. This represents the 33.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,401 (47.6% percentile) for all time with 2,760 births since 1903.
Macario first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1903 (first recorded for boys in 1903). Birth data for Macario is available in 111 out of the 121 years between 1903 and 2023. 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.
For boys, Macario reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #510) with 42 births per million. The name was most common in 1903, with 46 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Macario ranks #889 for boys (2.4% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 31.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macario".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Macario is pronounced as muh-KAH-ree-oh, which has 4 syllables.
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