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How popular is “Mac” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mac” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mac” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mac” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mac” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mac” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mac” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mac” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 7 0.000034742 7 -100%
1881 7 0.000036328 7 -100%
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1886 5 0.000019584 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1888 11 0.000036731 11 -100%
1889 5 0.000017304 5 -100%
1890 6 0.000019907 6 -100%
1891 5 0.000017441 5 -100%
1892 6 0.000017944 6 -100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 -100%
1894 6 0.000017715 6 -100%
1896 12 0.000033568 12 -100%
1897 7 0.000020175 7 -100%
1898 6 0.000015729 6 -100%
1900 12 0.000026651 12 -100%
1901 9 0.000026026 9 -100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 -100%
1903 5 0.000013116 5 -100%
1904 16 0.000039655 16 -100%
1905 7 0.000016512 7 -100%
1906 22 0.000051348 22 -100%
1907 21 0.000045123 21 -100%
1908 12 0.000024558 12 -100%
1909 16 0.000031297 16 -100%
1910 16 0.000027086 16 -100%
1911 22 0.000034147 22 -100%
1912 36 0.000036435 36 -100%
1913 34 0.0000299 34 -100%
1914 43 0.00003036 43 -100%
1915 65 0.000035472 65 -100%
1916 55 0.000028432 55 -100%
1917 76 0.000037872 76 -100%
1918 80 0.000036847 5 75 -88%
1919 77 0.000036489 77 -100%
1920 74 0.000032705 74 -100%
1921 71 0.000030413 71 -100%
1922 61 0.000026647 61 -100%
1923 76 0.000033008 76 -100%
1924 68 0.000028552 68 -100%
1925 83 0.000035572 7 76 -83%
1926 61 0.000026569 61 -100%
1927 72 0.000031043 72 -100%
1928 54 0.000023884 54 -100%
1929 66 0.000030107 66 -100%
1930 67 0.000030136 67 -100%
1931 73 0.000034689 73 -100%
1932 70 0.000033155 70 -100%
1933 75 0.00003751 75 -100%
1934 86 0.00004141 86 -100%
1935 68 0.000032537 68 -100%
1936 76 0.000036581 76 -100%
1937 70 0.000032854 70 -100%
1938 77 0.000034801 77 -100%
1939 88 0.000039938 88 -100%
1940 73 0.000031702 73 -100%
1941 80 0.000032835 80 -100%
1942 398 0.000145691 398 -100%
1943 238 0.000084321 238 -100%
1944 197 0.000073232 197 -100%
1945 149 0.000056165 7 142 -91%
1946 150 0.000046944 150 -100%
1947 138 0.000038309 138 -100%
1948 105 0.000030413 105 -100%
1949 106 0.000030418 106 -100%
1950 122 0.000034824 122 -100%
1951 127 0.000034476 127 -100%
1952 115 0.000030279 115 -100%
1953 88 0.000022836 88 -100%
1954 84 0.000021102 84 -100%
1955 92 0.000022914 92 -100%
1956 69 0.000016735 69 -100%
1957 77 0.000018324 77 -100%
1958 86 0.000020804 86 -100%
1959 69 0.000016595 69 -100%
1960 68 0.00001637 68 -100%
1961 63 0.000015209 63 -100%
1962 68 0.000016851 68 -100%
1963 58 0.000014653 58 -100%
1964 45 0.000011575 45 -100%
1965 73 0.000020135 73 -100%
1966 51 0.000014673 51 -100%
1967 47 0.000013844 47 -100%
1968 36 0.000010656 36 -100%
1969 33 0.000009496 33 -100%
1970 57 0.000015805 57 -100%
1971 32 0.000009323 32 -100%
1972 43 0.000013681 43 -100%
1973 56 0.000018562 56 -100%
1974 70 0.000023026 70 -100%
1975 105 0.000034775 105 -100%
1976 90 0.000029661 90 -100%
1977 67 0.000021092 67 -100%
1978 60 0.000018904 60 -100%
1979 67 0.000020138 67 -100%
1980 55 0.000015967 55 -100%
1981 47 0.000013586 47 -100%
1982 32 0.000009122 32 -100%
1983 27 0.000007796 27 -100%
1984 40 0.000011465 40 -100%
1985 38 0.000010647 38 -100%
1986 28 0.000007872 28 -100%
1987 37 0.000010262 37 -100%
1988 42 0.000011367 42 -100%
1989 37 0.000009624 37 -100%
1990 47 0.000011891 47 -100%
1991 43 0.000011039 43 -100%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 -100%
1993 36 0.000009548 36 -100%
1994 43 0.000011566 5 38 -77%
1995 37 0.000010103 37 -100%
1996 48 0.000013161 5 43 -79%
1997 38 0.000010481 38 -100%
1998 40 0.000010875 40 -100%
1999 58 0.000015702 58 -100%
2000 58 0.000015344 58 -100%
2001 62 0.000016563 5 57 -84%
2002 67 0.000017923 67 -100%
2003 67 0.000017621 67 -100%
2004 54 0.000014133 54 -100%
2005 54 0.000014045 54 -100%
2006 77 0.000019463 77 -100%
2007 86 0.000021512 86 -100%
2008 86 0.000021879 86 -100%
2009 99 0.000025915 99 -100%
2010 116 0.000031387 116 -100%
2011 110 0.000030073 110 -100%
2012 147 0.000040193 147 -100%
2013 159 0.000043613 159 -100%
2014 163 0.000043978 163 -100%
2015 177 0.000047826 177 -100%
2016 174 0.000047428 174 -100%
2017 185 0.000051731 185 -100%
2018 206 0.000058591 206 -100%
2019 254 0.000073179 254 -100%
2020 242 0.000072443 5 237 -96%
2021 400 0.000118066 400 -100%
2022 470 0.000138924 5 465 -98%
2023 426 0.000128654 9 417 -96%
2024 387 0.000116269 387 -100%

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