Maicon

Boys' name

Possibly who is like God?, through Michael

Maicon has been given to 28 babies in the U.S. since 2007. 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 2014, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Maicon, 2016

1 in 734,000

Maicon over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maicon: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly who is like God?, through Michael

English

What Maicon means

Maicon belongs to the name family reached through Maicon → Michael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maicon is used in Portuguese. Its origins include English.

Maicon comes through English Michael.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miguel and Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Maicon is pronounced /ˈmaj.kõ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 28 boys were recorded with the name Maicon between 2007 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2014; its best national rank was #9,303 in 2014.

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 Maicon?

Maicon 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 734,000; 5 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only: 1 in 380,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 508,706 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Maicon 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maicon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maicons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maicon was born before 2013 — so the typical Maicon is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 64.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 28; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 64.3% of all recorded uses (18).

Is Maicon 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 2014 (8)
Years since peak: 11; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 30.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #9,303; 2014

Spellings of Maicon

Maicon is not the most common spelling — Mason is, with 54.1% against Maicon's <0.01%.

Mason54.1%342,583
Marco12.1%76,578
Marion11.4%72,495
Marcos8.5%53,580
Marlon4.9%30,956
Madison1.2%7,869
Kaison1.1%7,182
Malcom0.93%5,864

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.

Maicon around the world

Where Maicon 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.

France
2010–2010
#4,227
in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Maicon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #9,303; 2014
Peak year: 2014; 8 that year
First recorded: 2007
Last recorded: 2016
All-time count: 28
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Maicon

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

Maizen Maiko Maisyn Maiyon Mailo Mainor Beacon Mairon Maiki Maikol Maik Maijor Maize Maycon Maier Maicol Maikel Maisen Maira Maiwand Maichael Marcon Maikah Maitreya

Sibling names for Maicon

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Honesty Elayna Alaysia Amia Priya Adilene Yamileth Annabell

For a brother

Jai Vihaan Casen Gannon Constantine Cain Anders Branson

Explore around Maicon

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