girls:
5 births since 2004
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
902 births since 1992
#3687 (20th percentile)
overall:
907 births since 1992
#6832 (12th percentile)
The name Macen is the #6,832 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 907 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 11.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,687 (19.6% percentile) for all time with 902 births since 1992. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 2004.
Macen first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (1992 for boys and 2004 for girls). Birth data for Macen is available in 31 out of the 32 years between 1992 and 2023 (31 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 Macen has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.4% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Macen reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #829) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Macen ranks #893 for boys (2.0% percentile) with 13 births per million, which is 46.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Macen reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #937) with 2 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 2 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macen".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Macen. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Macen is pronounced as MAY-suhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-SEEN, at 10.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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