Macaulay — #7411 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Macaulay

The Social Security Administration has registered 249 babies named Macaulay between 1990 and 2024, spanning 35 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Macaulay currently holds the #7411 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 36 babies received it in a single year. Macaulay is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 15 additional births since 1991.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Macaulay performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Macaulay shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Macaulay in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Macaulay in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 249 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.