Maclaren
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maclaren has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 2002. 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 2012, with 9 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 63% girls, 37% boys all-time.
Babies named Maclaren, 2016
1 in 524,000
Maclaren 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Maclaren over time
In 2018, Maclaren went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Maclaren?
Maclaren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2016
- 1 in 524,000
- 7 of 3,669,531 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 253,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2016
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 363,362 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maclaren sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2016 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maclaren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maclarens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maclaren was born before 2012 — so the typical Maclaren is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 55.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 40
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 55.0% of all recorded uses (22).
Is Maclaren 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
- —
- 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 2012 (9)
- Years since peak
- 13
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.8% average annual change
Maclaren around the world
Where Maclaren 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 & Wales2000–2000#3,036in 2000
- South Australia2009–2009#708in 2009
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Maclaren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Maclaren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maclaren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.