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Macklin

#998 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Macklin has been given to 2,577 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #998 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 228 recorded.

Babies named Macklin, 2025

1 in 14,500

Macklin over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Macklin: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Macklin means

Macklin is a given name.

The naming story behind Macklin

Wikidata records Macklin as a given name. The entity identifier is Q97751647, 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, 2,529 boys were recorded with the name Macklin between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 228 in 2025; its best national rank was #998 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,136 in 2020 to #998 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,735 in 2015 to #998 in 2025.

In the United States, 48 girls were recorded with the name Macklin between 2017 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2019; its best national rank was #11,832 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #12,953 in 2020 to #14,260 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 Macklin?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,500
228 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,490
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#998
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
10,080 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macklin 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 10,080 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macklin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macklins were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Macklin was born before 2018 — so the typical Macklin is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
41.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,508
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 41.0% of all recorded uses (1,036).

Is Macklin 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
+163
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+138
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+737
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (228)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#998
2025

Spellings of Macklin

Macklin is not the most common spelling — Marlin is, with 85.6% against Macklin's 10.2%.

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 Macklin is used

Across 2016–2025, Macklin was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 2,564 boys, against 1 in 12,173 across all states with data. It was least common in Tennessee (1 in 100,000).

139 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 2,564
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 3,030
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 3,846
  4. 4Iowa1 in 4,167
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 4,167
  6. 6Indiana1 in 6,667
  7. 7Ohio1 in 6,667
  8. 8Kansas1 in 7,143

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.

Macklin around the world

Where Macklin 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
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2020–2020
    #599
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2004–2024
    #536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1990–2010
    #494
    in 2010

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

Macklin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#998
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 138
Best rank ever
#998
2025
Peak year
2025
228 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,529
Count in 2025
228

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,260
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,307
Best rank ever
#11,832
2022
Peak year
2019
8 that year
First recorded
2017
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
48
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Macklin

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

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Names with a curve like Macklin

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

KilianZakariCartierBeauxCedarBastianAshZeusLevZephyrKnowledgeThorin

Sibling names for Macklin

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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