Macklan

#6,665 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Macklan has been given to 145 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #6,665 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Macklan, 2025

1 in 255,000

Macklan over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 255,000
13 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 131,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,665
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
176,762 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macklan 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macklan. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macklans were born

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

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
55.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
145
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Choose a decade

2020s — 55.9% of all recorded uses (81).

Is Macklan 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
+2,858
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,813
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,167
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.30×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
59.1%
Peak was 2022 (22)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
59.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,637
2022

Spellings of Macklan

Macklan is not the most common spelling — Lachlan is, with 57.6% against Macklan's 1.4%.

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.

Macklan by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,665
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,813
Best rank ever
#4,637
2022
Peak year
2022
22 that year
First recorded
2012
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
145
Count in 2025
13

Names similar to Macklan

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

Sibling names for Macklan

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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