Mackey
Mackey was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,179 among boys’ names; 618 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mackey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mackey?
#13,179 among boys’ names, 2025
Mackey entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #13,179 in 2025.
24 babies in 1950, the peak
Mackey peaked in 1950, when 24 boys were given it, #1,520 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,179 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,720 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,135 | 7.0 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,375 | 4.0 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,408 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,364 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,557 | 4.7 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,456 | 2.6 |
| 2010 | 7 | #10,337 | 3.6 |
| 2008 | 5 | #13,807 | 2.5 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 8 | #8,148 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,019 | 4.1 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,626 | 4.7 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,874 | 4.2 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,047 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,987 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,719 | 2.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,680 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,908 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #6,971 | 2.8 |
| 1981 | 8 | #4,790 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,161 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,509 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,727 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,929 | 5.1 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,709 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,224 | 5.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,814 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,771 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,145 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,876 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,782 | 4.8 |
| 1961 | 11 | #2,639 | 5.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,534 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,756 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,459 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,751 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,333 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 10 | #2,694 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,678 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,078 | 7.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,984 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,206 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 24 | #1,520 | 13.4 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,559 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,285 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 16 | #1,961 | 8.7 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,729 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 15 | #1,830 | 11.1 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,938 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 14 | #2,045 | 9.8 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,660 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,587 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,145 | 10.4 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,128 | 10.8 |
| 1938 | 9 | #2,581 | 8.1 |
| 1937 | 10 | #2,418 | 9.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,396 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,962 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,177 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,271 | 11.5 |
| 1928 | 9 | #2,979 | 8.1 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,027 | 5.3 |
| 1926 | 7 | #3,591 | 6.3 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,013 | 5.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,391 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 10 | #2,797 | 10.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mackey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mackey has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 67 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mackey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mackey, and how old are they?
An estimated 379 Americans named Mackey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 28 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 483 people named Mackey (81 women and girls, 402 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% above 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).
How common is the spelling Mackey?
Mackey is a less common spelling of Makhi: SSA has recorded 618 Mackey and 4,183 Makhi since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,109 babies since 1880, Mackey is the sixth most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 284 babies (1.8%), the seventh most given that year.
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 Mackey
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 Mackey and names like it
- Compare Mackey and MakhiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMackey peaked in 1950.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mackey since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Mackey.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mackey alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.