Maclin

#4,098 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Maclin has been given to 443 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #4,098 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Maclin, 2025

1 in 128,000

Maclin over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 65,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,098
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maclin 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maclin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maclins were born

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

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
56.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
432
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 56.9% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Maclin 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
+1,085
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,091
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−261
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.93×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.9%
Peak was 2018 (42)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,871
2018

Spellings of Maclin

Maclin is not the most common spelling — Martin is, with 42.0% against Maclin's 0.06%.

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 Maclin is used

Across 1910–2025, Maclin was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 407,734 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 100,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in —

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. Maclin has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maclin around the world

Where Maclin 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.

  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maclin by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,098
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,091
Best rank ever
#2,871
2018
Peak year
2018
42 that year
First recorded
1996
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
432
Count in 2025
26

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#15,654
2015
Peak year
2015
6 that year
First recorded
2015
Last recorded
2017
All-time count
11
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Maclin

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Sibling names for Maclin

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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