Mcauthor
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mcauthor has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1942, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Mcauthor, 1943
1 in 564,000
Mcauthor 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mcauthor?
Mcauthor had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1943, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1943
- 1 in 564,000
- 5 of 2,822,499 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1943
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 391,283 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mcauthor sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1943 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 391,283 children born in 1943 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mcauthor. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mcauthors were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mcauthor was born before 1942 — so the typical Mcauthor is around 83 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (13).
Is Mcauthor 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 1942 (8)
- Years since peak
- 83
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Mcauthor
Mcauthor is not the most common spelling — Mcarthur is, with 51.0% against Mcauthor's 0.29%.
Mcauthor by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mcauthor
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mcauthor
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.