girls:
84 births since 2010
#5632 (1st percentile)
boys:
14 births since 1927
#4572 (0th percentile)
overall:
98 births since 1927
#7641 (1st percentile)
The name Maclyn is the #7,641 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98 recorded births since 1927. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,632 (1.4% percentile) for all time with 84 births since 2010. For boys, it ranks #4,572 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1927.
Maclyn first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1927 (1927 for boys and 2010 for girls). Birth data for Maclyn is available in 11 out of the 97 years between 1927 and 2023 (10 years for girls and 2 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 Maclyn has been given predominantly to girls, with 85.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Maclyn were girls. Interestingly, until around 2010, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1927 to 2009), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (93.3% girls from 2010 to 2023).
For girls, Maclyn reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #950) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maclyn ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 39.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Maclyn reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #536) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maclyn".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Maclyn is pronounced as MAK-lihn, which has 2 syllables.
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