Macel
Macel was last recorded in 1959, when 6 babies were given it; 826 Americans have been recorded with it between 1900 and 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Macel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,968, in 1959; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
37 babies in 1917, the peak
Macel peaked in 1917, when 37 girls were given it, #1,198 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 6 | #5,968 | 3.0 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,190 | 3.3 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,790 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,709 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 7 | #4,451 | 4.1 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,209 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,767 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,874 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,873 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,084 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 13 | #2,614 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,433 | 6.6 |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,113 | 7.9 |
| 1939 | 16 | #2,087 | 14.6 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,851 | 9.1 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,055 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,992 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,587 | 21.9 |
| 1934 | 14 | #2,251 | 13.4 |
| 1933 | 25 | #1,501 | 24.8 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,790 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,513 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 21 | #1,784 | 18.7 |
| 1929 | 23 | #1,679 | 20.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #2,152 | 14.7 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,800 | 19.3 |
| 1926 | 23 | #1,806 | 19.4 |
| 1925 | 29 | #1,558 | 23.8 |
| 1924 | 36 | #1,373 | 28.8 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,620 | 22.4 |
| 1922 | 31 | #1,490 | 25.8 |
| 1921 | 25 | #1,751 | 20.3 |
| 1920 | 31 | #1,461 | 25.9 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,548 | 23.9 |
| 1918 | 35 | #1,289 | 30.2 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,198 | 34.2 |
| 1916 | 26 | #1,469 | 24.9 |
| 1915 | 21 | #1,655 | 21.3 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,418 | 27.6 |
| 1913 | 15 | #1,572 | 24.0 |
| 1912 | 22 | #1,133 | 39.4 |
| 1911 | 11 | #1,508 | 26.3 |
| 1910 | 10 | #1,584 | 25.2 |
| 1909 | 18 | #985 | 51.8 |
| 1908 | 10 | #1,399 | 29.9 |
| 1907 | 7 | #1,741 | 22.0 |
| 1906 | 11 | #1,202 | 37.3 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,117 | 17.1 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,785 | 21.8 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,102 | 16.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Macel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Macel has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 50 years of records.
Girls and boys named Macel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macel, and how old are they?
An estimated 98 Americans named Macel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 251 people named Macel (211 women and girls, 40 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 167 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times 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).
Where are babies named Macel born?
The states with the most babies named Macel are West Virginia, Tennessee and Arkansas, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia and Tennessee and Arkansas are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 292 | not ranked | 20.8× |
| Tennessee | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Macel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Macel is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 20.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Macel with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,431 babies since 1880, Macel is the most given (58% of them).
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 Macel
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 Macel and names like it
- Compare Macel and MacielBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sMacel peaked in 1917.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macel since 1910.
- The top names of 1917The year the most babies were named Macel.
- Names starting with MMost given first.