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Maceo

#2,200 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Maceo has been given to 3,195 babies in the U.S. since 1898. In 2025 it ranked #2,200 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 95 recorded.

Babies named Maceo, 2025

1 in 51,000

Maceo over time, 1880–2025

Boys
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maceo: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maceo means

Maceo is a given name.

The naming story behind Maceo

Wikidata records Maceo as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q83472621, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,195 boys were recorded with the name Maceo between 1898 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 95 in 2017; its best national rank was #620 in 1898.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,884 in 2020 to #2,200 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,064 in 2015 to #2,200 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.

How common is Maceo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,000
65 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,200
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,353 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maceo 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 35,353 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maceo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maceos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maceo was born before 1996 — so the typical Maceo is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
21.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,498
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 21.0% of all recorded uses (670).

Is Maceo 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
−50
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−316
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−136
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.4%
Peak was 2017 (95)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#620
1898

Spellings of Maceo

Maceo is not the most common spelling — Mario is, with 22.6% against Maceo's 0.48%.

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 Maceo is used

Across 2016–2025, Maceo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 30,436 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 50,000
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 50,000
  6. 6Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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.

Maceo around the world

Where Maceo 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
    2006–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • France
    1995–2025
    #1,221
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2004–2023
    #3,103
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1990–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Maceo

People whose public names include Maceo, 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.

Maceo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,200
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 316
Best rank ever
#620
1898
Peak year
2017
95 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,195
Count in 2025
65

Names similar to Maceo

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

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Names with a curve like Maceo

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

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Sibling names for Maceo

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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