Macgregor
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Macgregor has been given to 282 babies in the U.S. since 1974. 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 2000, with 17 recorded.
Babies named Macgregor, 2019
1 in 496,000
Macgregor over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Macgregor?
Macgregor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 496,000
- 7 of 3,472,229 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 256,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 343,825 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Macgregor sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 343,825 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macgregor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Macgregors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Macgregor was born before 2001 — so the typical Macgregor is around 24 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 74.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 282
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.7% of all recorded uses (109).
Is Macgregor 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2000 (17)
- Years since peak
- 25
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.0% average annual change
Macgregor around the world
Where Macgregor 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.
- Scotland2006–2006#584in 2006
- Canada1995–2009#2,374in 2009
- South Australia1965–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Macgregor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Macgregor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Macgregor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.