Mcdonald
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mcdonald has been given to 605 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1918, with 19 recorded.
Babies named Mcdonald, 2000
1 in 756,000
Mcdonald 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mcdonald?
Mcdonald had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 756,000
- 5 of 3,778,496 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 393,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 523,812 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mcdonald sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mcdonald. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mcdonalds were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mcdonald was born before 1940 — so the typical Mcdonald is around 85 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 19.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 1.7%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 214
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 19.5% of all recorded uses (118).
Is Mcdonald 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1918 (19)
- Years since peak
- 107
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.5% average annual change
Spellings of Mcdonald
Mcdonald is not the most common spelling — Donald is, with 100.0% against Mcdonald's 0.04%.
- Donald100.0%1,414,824
- Mcdonald0.04%605
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 Mcdonald is used
Across 1910–2025, Mcdonald was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 133,516 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1North Carolina1 in 100,000
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. Mcdonald has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mcdonald around the world
Where Mcdonald 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.
- South Australia1981–1981#425in 1981
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mcdonald by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mcdonald
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mcdonald
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.