girls:
180 births since 1915
#5536 (3rd percentile)
boys:
41.4k births since 1880
#552 (88th percentile)
overall:
41.6k births since 1880
#1210 (84th percentile)
The name Mack is the #1,210 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 41,615 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 84.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 84.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #552 (88.0% percentile) for all time with 41,435 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,536 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 180 births since 1915.
Mack has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1915 for girls).
The name Mack has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mack reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 66.7% percentile (ranked #184) with 596 births per million. The name was most common in 1900, with 1,542 births per million (ranked 63.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1999, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mack ranks #477 for boys (47.7% percentile) with 294 births per million, which is 19.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mack reached its peak popularity in 1922, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #592) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1922, with 8 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mack".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mack. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mack is pronounced as mak, which has 1 syllables.
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