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Macario

#3,718 in 2025Boys' name

Blessed, happy, fortunate, through Μακάριος

Macario has been given to 2,824 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #3,718 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Macario, 2025

1 in 111,000

Macario over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Macario: meaning, origin, and history

Blessed, happy, fortunate, through Μακάριος

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Macario means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Macario is used in Italian and Spanish.

Macario comes through Ancient Greek Μακάριος.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Μακάριος.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Macario is pronounced /maˈkaɾjo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,824 boys were recorded with the name Macario between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,014 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,869 in 2020 to #3,718 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,586 in 2015 to #3,718 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 Macario?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 111,000
30 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 56,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,718
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
76,598 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macario 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 76,598 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macario. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macarios were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Macario was born before 1981 — so the typical Macario is around 44 today.

Median birth year
1981
About 44 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
12.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,069
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 12.4% of all recorded uses (349).

Is Macario 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
−289
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−849
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,132
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2006 (50)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,014
1924

Spellings of Macario

Macario is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 91.2% against Macario's 1.7%.

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 Macario is used

Across 1910–2025, Macario was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 32,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 12,500
  2. 2California1 in 33,333
  3. 3New Mexico1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Georgia1 in —
  7. 7Michigan1 in —

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. Macario has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Macario around the world

Where Macario 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
    2010–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • South Australia
    1969–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Notable people named Macario

People whose public names include Macario, 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.

Macario in other languages

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

MakarMacariMacaireMacariusMakariosMakárMakaryMacarieMakarijMakariy

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

Macario by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,718
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 849
Best rank ever
#1,014
1924
Peak year
2006
50 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,824
Count in 2025
30

Names similar to Macario

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

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Names with a curve like Macario

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

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Sibling names for Macario

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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