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Macaire

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Blessed, happy, fortunate, through Μακάριος

Macaire has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 5 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% girls, 50% boys all-time.

Babies named Macaire, 1980

1 in 689,000

Macaire over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Macaire over time

In 2008, Macaire went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19802008

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Macaire: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed, happy, fortunate, through Μακάριος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Macaire means

Macaire belongs to the name family reached through Macaire → Μακάριος. Its meaning is “blessed, happy, fortunate”.

Origin, language, and formation

Macaire is used in French.

Macaire comes through Latin Macarius and Ancient Greek Μακάριος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Μακάριος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Macaire is pronounced /ma.kɛʁ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Macaire between 1980 and 1980. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1980; its best national rank was #11,396 in 1980.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Macaire between 2008 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2008; its best national rank was #13,803 in 2008.

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 Macaire?

Macaire had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1980, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1980
1 in 689,000
5 of 3,444,198 births
Among girls only
1 in 332,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1980
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
477,468 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macaire sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1980 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 477,468 children born in 1980 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macaire. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macaires were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Macaire was born before 1980 — so the typical Macaire is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5
People you could plausibly meet
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1980s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Macaire 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1980 (5)
Years since peak
45
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,396
1980

Spellings of Macaire

Macaire is not the most common spelling — Macie is, with 93.9% against Macaire's 0.02%.

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.

Macaire around the world

Where Macaire 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.

  • France
    1902–1951
    #1,650
    in 1951
  • South Australia
    1972–1972
    #722
    in 1972

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Macaire by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#11,396
1980
Peak year
1980
5 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
1980
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,803
2008
Peak year
2008
5 that year
First recorded
2008
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Macaire

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

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Sibling names for Macaire

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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