Mclean
UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mclean has been given to 369 babies in the U.S. since 1923. 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 1996, with 16 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 94% boys, 6% girls all-time.
Babies named Mclean, 2024
1 in 418,000
Mclean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mclean over time
In 2024, Mclean went to 38% girls and 62% 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 Mclean?
Mclean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 215,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mclean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mclean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mcleans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mclean was born before 1996 — so the typical Mclean is around 29 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.2%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 343
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (93).
Is Mclean 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 1996 (16)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.0% average annual change
Spellings of Mclean
Mclean is not the most common spelling — Milan is, with 66.9% against Mclean's 1.3%.
Mclean around the world
Where Mclean 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 Australia1980–1980#422in 1980
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mclean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mclean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mclean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.