girls:
11 births since 2015
#5705 (0th percentile)
boys:
387 births since 1996
#4199 (8th percentile)
overall:
398 births since 1996
#7341 (5th percentile)
The name Maclin is the #7,341 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 398 recorded births since 1996. This represents the 5.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,199 (8.4% percentile) for all time with 387 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,705 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2015.
Maclin first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1996 (1996 for boys and 2015 for girls). Birth data for Maclin is available in 18 out of the 28 years between 1996 and 2023 (18 years for boys and 2 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 Maclin has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Maclin reached its peak popularity in 2018, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #876) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 2018, with 22 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Maclin ranks #890 for boys (2.3% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 65.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Maclin reached its peak popularity in 2015, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #959) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2015, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maclin".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maclin. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 71.4% confident that Maclin is pronounced as MAK-lihn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAK-luhn, at 19.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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