Macklyn
#7,355 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Macklyn has been given to 351 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #7,355 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 30 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 77% girls, 23% boys all-time.
Babies named Macklyn, 2025
1 in 221,000
Macklyn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Macklyn over time
In 2025, Macklyn went to 71% girls and 29% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Macklyn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 221,000
- 15 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 107,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,355
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 153,194 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Macklyn 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macklyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Macklyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Macklyn was born before 2019 — so the typical Macklyn is around 6 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 272
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (136).
Is Macklyn 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
- −1,459
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,767
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,389
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.15×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2018 (30)
- Years since peak
- 7
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 39.4% average annual change
Spellings of Macklyn
Macklyn is not the most common spelling — Marilyn is, with 57.5% against Macklyn's 0.04%.
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 Macklyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Macklyn was most concentrated in Kansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 525,064 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Macklyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Macklyn around the world
Where Macklyn 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.
- South Australia2012–2012#771in 2012
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Macklyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Macklyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Macklyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.