Maciel — unisex name

What the Data Says About Maciel

The Social Security Administration has registered 198 babies named Maciel between 1977 and 2006, spanning 30 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maciel currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2006. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Maciel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 58 additional births since 1992.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maciel performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 91 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Maciel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Maciel in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maciel 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 198 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.