girls:
15 births since 2013
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
121 births since 1993
#4465 (3rd percentile)
overall:
136 births since 1993
#7603 (2nd percentile)
The name Mclane is the #7,603 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 136 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 1.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,465 (2.6% percentile) for all time with 121 births since 1993. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2013.
Mclane first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (1993 for boys and 2013 for girls). Birth data for Mclane is available in 19 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 3 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 Mclane has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mclane were boys.
For boys, Mclane reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #769) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mclane ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 46.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mclane reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #936) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 3 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 "Mclane".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mclane. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 86.0% confident that Mclane is pronounced as muhk-LAYN, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mihk-LAYN, at 14.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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