girls:
11.2k births since 1900
#1484 (74th percentile)
boys:
51 births since 1914
#4535 (1st percentile)
overall:
11.3k births since 1900
#2473 (68th percentile)
The name Macey is the #2,473 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 11,298 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 68.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 68.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,484 (74.0% percentile) for all time with 11,247 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,535 (1.0% percentile) for all time with 51 births since 1914.
Macey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1914 for boys). Birth data for Macey is available in 74 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (70 years for girls and 9 years for boys). 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 Macey has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.5% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Macey reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 50.5% percentile (ranked #445) with 283 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 283 births per million (ranked 50.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Macey ranks #828 for girls (12.6% percentile) with 71 births per million, which is 25.0% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Macey reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #501) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Macey is pronounced as MAY-see, which has 2 syllables.
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