Mackey — #8369 US boys' name
607 babies named Mackey in U.S. Social Security records since 1919, with the highest year being 1950. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 41% of names given to boys today.
22% of everyone ever named Mackey was born in this single decade.
24 babies were named Mackey in 1950 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mackey
The Social Security Administration has registered 607 babies named Mackey between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mackey currently holds the #8369 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1950, when 24 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mackey performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 135 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Mackey shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Mackey in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mackey 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 607 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.
Mackey at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
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Mackey popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1919
- Peak year (1950)
- 24
- Annual births at peak — across 106 years of records
Currently ranks #8369 among boys.
607 total births across 106 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1950 with 24 births in a single year.
Mackey popularity over time — girls
6 total births recorded since 2021 (Mackey as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Mackey accounts for 1% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mackey by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1940s
- 135 births that decade — 22% of Mackey's all-time total
Mackey decade highlights
- Peak decade 135 births
- Runner-up 124 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1940s was Mackey's strongest decade
135 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 22% of all-time use.
Mackey by state
Where Mackey concentrates geographically — total births since 1919
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Texas | | 10 | 1.6% |
| #2 | South Carolina | | 5 | 0.8% |
10 of 607 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Texas 1.6% of nationwide
- South Carolina 0.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 1.6% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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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, 1919–2024 (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.