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Mac

#696 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Mack

Mac has been given to 11,455 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #696 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 465 recorded.

Babies named Mac, 2025

1 in 8,500

Mac over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mac: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mack

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mac means

Mac is a variant of Mack.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Mac is a variant of Mack. Mack has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Mac is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mack and Max.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mac is pronounced /mæk/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,397 boys were recorded with the name Mac between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 465 in 2022; its best national rank was #308 in 1942.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #934 in 2020 to #696 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,098 in 2015 to #696 in 2025.

In the United States, 58 girls were recorded with the name Mac between 1918 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,873 in 1945.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #16,590 in 2020 to #16,342 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 Mac?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 8,500
390 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,380
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#696
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
5,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mac 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 1001%
School of 5006%

Put another way: gather 5,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mac. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mac was born before 1976 — so the typical Mac is around 49 today.

Median birth year
1976
About 49 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
40.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,616
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (2,299).

Is Mac 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
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+238
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+402
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
83.9%
Peak was 2022 (465)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#308
1942

Where Mac is used

Across 2016–2025, Mac was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 1,695 boys, against 1 in 5,624 across all states with data. It was least common in Nevada (1 in 25,000).

459 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 1,695
  2. 2Minnesota1 in 2,041
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 2,500
  4. 4Iowa1 in 2,703
  5. 5Nebraska1 in 3,030
  6. 6Alabama1 in 3,226
  7. 7Ohio1 in 3,333
  8. 8Michigan1 in 3,571

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Geographically, Mac is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 51% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Mac around the world

Where Mac 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
    1996–2025
    #782
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1995–2025
    #219
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2025
    #395
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1969–2024
    #520
    in 2024
  • France
    1960–2022
    #7,260
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1994–2024
    #794
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1945–2013
    #389
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mac

People whose public names include Mac, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mac in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mac. Linked forms have their own page here.

MakMaceMackMalcolmMacartneyMaćij

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mac by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#696
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 238
Best rank ever
#308
1942
Peak year
2022
465 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,397
Count in 2025
390

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#16,342
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 248
Best rank ever
#3,873
1945
Peak year
2023
9 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
58
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Mac

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

MackMaceMaceoMaconMacenMacarioMacklinMacoyCormacMackieMackenzieMachiMacyMackeyMacsenMaclinMachaiMacariMaciahMaclainMaclanMacraeMacaiMackson

Names with a curve like Mac

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mac, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MurphyDenverAugustineLindenWinstonBenedictWylieFletcherRoyceOzzieRoyalEnoch

Sibling names for Mac

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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