girls:
204 births since 1911
#5512 (4th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1898
#2761 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1898
#5527 (29th percentile)
The name Macon is the #5,527 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,275 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 28.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,761 (39.8% percentile) for all time with 2,071 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #5,512 (3.5% percentile) for all time with 204 births since 1911.
Macon first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1911 for girls). Birth data for Macon is available in 119 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023 (118 years for boys and 32 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 Macon has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Macon reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 5.8% percentile (ranked #504) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 51 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Macon ranks #894 for boys (1.9% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 23.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Macon reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1911, with 11 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macon".
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