girls:
31.9k births since 1885
#789 (86th percentile)
boys:
555 births since 1895
#4031 (12th percentile)
overall:
32.5k births since 1885
#1409 (82nd percentile)
The name Macy is the #1,409 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 32,468 recorded births since 1885. This represents the 81.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 81.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #789 (86.2% percentile) for all time with 31,913 births since 1885. For boys, it ranks #4,031 (12.0% percentile) for all time with 555 births since 1895.
Macy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1885 (1885 for girls and 1895 for boys). Birth data for Macy is available in 136 out of the 139 years between 1885 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 76 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 Macy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 98.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Macy reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 76.6% percentile (ranked #213) with 739 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 739 births per million (ranked 76.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Macy ranks #562 for girls (40.7% percentile) with 240 births per million, which is 32.4% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Macy reached its peak popularity in 1926, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #543) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 39 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Macy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Macy is pronounced as MAY-see, which has 2 syllables.
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