Mcclain
#4,981 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mcclain has been given to 586 babies in the U.S. since 1918. In 2025 it ranked #4,981 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 21 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 84% boys, 16% girls all-time.
Babies named Mcclain, 2025
1 in 166,000
Mcclain 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mcclain over time
In 2025, Mcclain went to 29% girls and 71% 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 Mcclain?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 85,400
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,981
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mcclain 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mcclain. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mcclains were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mcclain was born before 2007 — so the typical Mcclain is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 23.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 64.8%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 478
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 23.7% of all recorded uses (117).
Is Mcclain 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
- +597
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +179
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +458
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.18×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 95.2%
- Peak was 2022 (21)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.5% average annual change
Mcclain by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mcclain
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mcclain
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.