Mackinnon
#7,043 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mackinnon has been given to 107 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #7,043 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Mackinnon, 2025
1 in 276,000
Mackinnon 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mackinnon?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,043
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mackinnon sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mackinnon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mackinnons were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mackinnon was born before 2020 — so the typical Mackinnon is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 51.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 92.5%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 107
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 51.4% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Mackinnon 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
- +1,678
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −172
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +6,240
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.40×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2020 (12)
- Years since peak
- 5
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.0% average annual change
Mackinnon around the world
Where Mackinnon 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.
- Canada2018–2022#2,335in 2022
- South Australia2004–2004#589in 2004
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mackinnon by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mackinnon
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mackinnon
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.