Mclane
#8,683 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mclane has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #8,683 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1996, with 14 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Mclane, 2025
1 in 368,000
Mclane 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mclane over time
In 2025, Mclane went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Mclane?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 368,000
- 9 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 190,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,683
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 255,323 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mclane 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mclane. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mclanes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mclane was born before 2007 — so the typical Mclane is around 18 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 39.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 136
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (54).
Is Mclane 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
- +3,181
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,685
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.80×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 64.3%
- Peak was 1996 (14)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.9% average annual change
Spellings of Mclane
Mclane is not the most common spelling — Lane is, with 61.3% against Mclane's 0.18%.
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.
Mclane by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mclane
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mclane
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.