Macey
Macey was given to 129 girls in 2025, #1,619 among girls’ names; 11,587 Americans have been recorded with it since 1900 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 11,300 Americans named Macey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Macey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Macey is “a female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.”
As an English surname, variant of Massey.
As a Slavic surname, Americanized from Slovak Macej, Carpathian Rusyn [script needed] (Mačej), Polish Maciej, all variants of Matthew.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Macey?
#1,619 among girls’ names, 2025
Macey fell from #1,066 in 2015 to #1,619 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.14 to 0.08 per 1,000.
561 babies in 2001, the peak
Macey peaked in 2001, when 561 girls were given it, #494 among girls’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,619 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 158 | #1,417 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 126 | #1,651 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,703 | 0.07 |
| 2021 | 110 | #1,837 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,406 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 161 | #1,399 | 0.10 |
| 2018 | 168 | #1,342 | 0.10 |
| 2017 | 201 | #1,205 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 212 | #1,181 | 0.12 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 248 | #1,066 | 0.14 |
| 2014 | 291 | #928 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 277 | #921 | 0.16 |
| 2012 | 322 | #833 | 0.18 |
| 2011 | 374 | #738 | 0.21 |
| 2010 | 403 | #710 | 0.23 |
| 2009 | 413 | #704 | 0.22 |
| 2008 | 478 | #646 | 0.25 |
| 2007 | 453 | #656 | 0.24 |
| 2006 | 453 | #636 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 536 | #540 | 0.29 |
| 2004 | 458 | #606 | 0.25 |
| 2003 | 495 | #560 | 0.27 |
| 2002 | 455 | #575 | 0.25 |
| 2001 | 561 | #494 | 0.31 |
| 2000 | 518 | #514 | 0.29 |
| 1999 | 474 | #533 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 395 | #608 | 0.22 |
| 1997 | 310 | #696 | 0.18 |
| 1996 | 284 | #744 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 279 | #736 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 251 | #805 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 246 | #813 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 236 | #841 | 0.13 |
| 1991 | 181 | #1,016 | 0.10 |
| 1990 | 165 | #1,073 | 0.09 |
| 1989 | 65 | #1,971 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 24 | #3,846 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,946 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,127 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,373 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,324 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,841 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,832 | under 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,827 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,528 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,404 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #3,997 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,429 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,053 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,595 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,840 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,357 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,750 | under 0.01 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,696 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,230 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,467 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,294 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,785 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,795 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,610 | under 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,897 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,839 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,127 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 9 | #3,032 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,453 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,248 | 0.01 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,253 | 0.02 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,720 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,103 | 0.02 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Macey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Macey has been given almost only to girls: 51 boys in 76 years of records.
Girls and boys named Macey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macey, and how old are they?
11,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 11,587 Americans ever recorded as Macey. The median Macey alive today is 21 years old; half are between 15 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 10,192 people named Macey (10,074 women and girls, 118 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,621 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 123 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,830 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 7,030 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,350 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Macey born?
The states with the most babies named Macey are Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 39% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 11 | #1,993 | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,097 | 1.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,185 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 7 | #1,803 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 7 | #753 | 0.7× |
| California | 6 | #2,965 | 0.4× |
| Minnesota | 6 | #798 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,539 | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #872 | 1.0× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,176 | 0.7× |
Where Macey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Macey is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1910 it was given 1.7 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 Macey 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 95,113 babies since 1880, Macey is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 1,634 babies (7.9%), again the fourth 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 Macey
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 Macey and names like it
- Compare Macey and MacyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMacey peaked in 2001.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macey since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Macey: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Macey.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Macey alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.