Macgregor — boys' name
282 babies named Macgregor in U.S. Social Security records since 1974, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Macgregor was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Macgregor in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Macgregor
The Social Security Administration has registered 282 babies named Macgregor between 1974 and 2019, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Macgregor currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2019. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 17 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Macgregor performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 109 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Macgregor shows notable generational variation in parental adoption.
No etymological entry is currently available for Macgregor 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 282 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.
Macgregor at a glance
Last recorded 2019Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Macgregor popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2019–1974
- Peak year (2000)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2019.
282 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 17 births in a single year.
Macgregor by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 109 births that decade — 39% of Macgregor's all-time total
Macgregor decade highlights
- Peak decade 109 births
- Runner-up 80 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Macgregor's strongest decade
109 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1974–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.