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Cormack

#10,934 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Irish origin

Cormack has been given to 32 babies in the U.S. since 2007. In 2025 it ranked #10,934 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Cormack, 2025

1 in 553,000

Cormack over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cormack: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Irish origin

Irish

What Cormack means

Cormack is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Cormack is used in English. Its origins include Irish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Cormack is pronounced /ˈkɔɹ.mæk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 32 boys were recorded with the name Cormack between 2007 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 6 in 2007; its best national rank was #10,934 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Cormack?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#10,934
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cormack sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cormack. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Cormacks were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cormack was born before 2014 — so the typical Cormack is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
46.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
32
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Choose a decade

2010s — 46.9% of all recorded uses (15).

Is Cormack rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,766
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2007 (6)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,934
2025

Spellings of Cormack

Cormack is not the most common spelling — Cormac is, with 99.1% against Cormack's 0.86%.

  • Cormac99.1%3,698
  • Cormack0.86%32

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Cormack around the world

Where Cormack ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2010
    #4,678
    in 2010
  • Ireland
    1966–1981
    #322
    in 1981
  • South Australia
    2003–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cormack by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#10,934
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#10,934
2025
Peak year
2007
6 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
32
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Cormack

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Cormack

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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