Mccartney
#12,727 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mccartney has been given to 444 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #12,727 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 72% girls, 28% boys all-time.
Babies named Mccartney, 2025
1 in 474,000
Mccartney 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mccartney over time
In 2025, Mccartney went to 58% girls and 42% 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 Mccartney?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 230,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #12,727
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mccartney sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mccartney. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mccartneys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mccartney was born before 2012 — so the typical Mccartney is around 13 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 45.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 94.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 320
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 45.6% of all recorded uses (146).
Is Mccartney 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
- −1,921
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −3,396
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −6,344
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.35×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 30.4%
- Peak was 2008 (23)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.2% average annual change
Mccartney around the world
Where Mccartney 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 & Wales2012–2012#4,805in 2012
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Mccartney by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Mccartney
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mccartney
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.