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Macsen

#3,062 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Maximus

Macsen has been given to 469 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #3,062 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 41 recorded.

Babies named Macsen, 2025

1 in 82,900

Macsen over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Macsen: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Maximus

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Macsen means

Macsen is a form of Maximus.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Macsen → Maximus. The family’s meaning is “greatest”, recorded in the naming reference for Maximus.

Origin, language, and formation

Macsen is used in Welsh.

Macsen comes through Latin Maximus.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Maximus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 469 boys were recorded with the name Macsen between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 41 in 2017; its best national rank was #2,928 in 2017.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,964 in 2020 to #3,062 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,281 in 2015 to #3,062 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Macsen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 82,900
40 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 42,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,062
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
57,449 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Macsen 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 57,449 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Macsen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Macsens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Macsen was born before 2017 — so the typical Macsen is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
57.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
469
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 57.6% of all recorded uses (270).

Is Macsen 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
+509
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,902
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+219
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.14×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.6%
Peak was 2017 (41)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,928
2017

Spellings of Macsen

Macsen is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 77.9% against Macsen's 0.11%.

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 Macsen is used

Across 1910–2025, Macsen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,420,000 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Macsen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Macsen around the world

Where Macsen 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
    1996–2025
    #314
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2021–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2014–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Statistics Canada. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Macsen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,062
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,902
Best rank ever
#2,928
2017
Peak year
2017
41 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
469
Count in 2025
40

Names similar to Macsen

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

MacksenMaclinMackeyMachaiMacariMackieMaciahMaclainMacoyMaclanMacraeMachiMacksonCaisenDawsenLarsenBensenHudsenMacenJessenMacallanMaysenMaisenMacklen

Sibling names for Macsen

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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