girls:
14 births since 1996
#5702 (0th percentile)
boys:
207 births since 1982
#4379 (4th percentile)
overall:
221 births since 1982
#7518 (3rd percentile)
The name Mclain is the #7,518 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 221 recorded births since 1982. This represents the 2.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 2.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,379 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 207 births since 1982. For girls, it ranks #5,702 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 14 births since 1996.
Mclain first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1982 (1982 for boys and 1996 for girls). Birth data for Mclain is available in 26 out of the 40 years between 1982 and 2021 (26 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 Mclain has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 93.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mclain reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.9% percentile (ranked #806) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Mclain reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #894) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mclain".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mclain. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Mclain is pronounced as muhk-LAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mihk-LAYN, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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