Macallan
Macallan was given to 36 boys in 2025, #3,282 among boys’ names; 465 Americans have been recorded with it since 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macallan by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Macallan?
#3,282 among boys’ names, 2025
Macallan rose from #5,428 in 2015 to #3,282 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.9 to 21.1 per million.
38 babies in 2022, the peak
Macallan peaked in 2022, when 38 boys were given it, #3,191 among boys’ names. The 36 births of 2025 are 95% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 36 | #3,282 | 21.1 |
| 2024 | 35 | #3,365 | 20.3 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,391 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,191 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 35 | #3,335 | 20.0 |
| 2020 | 35 | #3,244 | 20.3 |
| 2019 | 32 | #3,533 | 17.8 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,165 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,406 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 18 | #5,243 | 9.5 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 17 | #5,428 | 8.9 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,633 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,480 | 6.9 |
| 2012 | 11 | #7,354 | 5.8 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,307 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,335 | 3.6 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,543 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,027 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,910 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,225 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 5 | #12,601 | 2.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #7,936 | 4.5 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,484 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,947 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,639 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Macallan a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 465 Americans recorded as Macallan, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 36 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Macallan: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macallan, and how old are they?
An estimated 461 Americans named Macallan and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 4 and 12. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 306 people named Macallan (40 women and girls, 266 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 258 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 1,090 babies since 1880, Macallan is the most given (43% of them). In 2025 it was given to 36 of their 65 babies (55%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Macallan
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Macallan and names like it
- Compare Macallan and MacleanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMacallan peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macallan since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Macallan.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Macallan alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.