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Macarena

#4,312 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly blessed, happy

Macarena has been given to 336 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #4,312 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Macarena, 2025

1 in 100,000

Macarena over time, 1880–2025

Girls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Macarena: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly blessed, happy

Ancient Greek and Arabic

What Macarena means

Macarena may mean “blessed, happy”, associated with makários.

Origin, language, and formation

Macarena is used in Spanish. Its origins include Ancient Greek and Arabic.

Macarena comes through Ancient Greek μακάριος and Arabic مقْرِين.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Macarena is pronounced /makaˈɾena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 336 girls were recorded with the name Macarena between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,936 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,803 in 2020 to #4,312 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,521 in 2015 to #4,312 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 Macarena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 100,000
33 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 48,700
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,312
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
69,634 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macarena 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 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 69,634 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macarena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macarenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Macarena was born before 2020 — so the typical Macarena is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
53.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
336
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Choose a decade

2020s — 53.9% of all recorded uses (181).

Is Macarena 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
−376
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,491
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+8,209
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.13×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.8%
Peak was 2024 (38)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,936
2024

Spellings of Macarena

Macarena is not the most common spelling — Marena is, with 52.6% against Macarena's 13.7%.

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.

Where Macarena is used

Across 1910–2025, Macarena was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 163,614 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Macarena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Macarena around the world

Where Macarena 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
    2020–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    1965–1965
    #1,561
    in 1965

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Macarena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,312
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,491
Best rank ever
#3,936
2024
Peak year
2024
38 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
336
Count in 2025
33

Names similar to Macarena

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

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Sibling names for Macarena

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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