Macklin
Macklin was given to 228 boys in 2025, #998 among boys’ names; 2,577 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,530 Americans named Macklin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 14.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Macklin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Macklin mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Macklin is “a male given name transferred from the surname”
Ultimately from Irish Mac Gille Eoin.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Macklin?
#998 among boys’ names, 2025
Macklin rose from #1,735 in 2015 to #998 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.05 to 0.13 per 1,000.
234 babies in 2025, the peak
Macklin peaked in 2025, when 234 babies were given it (228 boys, #998 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 180 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 228 | #998 | 0.13 |
| 2024 | 180 | #1,161 | 0.10 |
| 2023 | 130 | #1,411 | 0.08 |
| 2022 | 151 | #1,279 | 0.09 |
| 2021 | 175 | #1,150 | 0.10 |
| 2020 | 172 | #1,136 | 0.10 |
| 2019 | 170 | #1,147 | 0.09 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,231 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 124 | #1,412 | 0.07 |
| 2016 | 118 | #1,461 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 89 | #1,735 | 0.05 |
| 2014 | 69 | #2,053 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 65 | #2,080 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 50 | #2,509 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,573 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 48 | #2,572 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,445 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 23 | #4,343 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 32 | #3,411 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,616 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 32 | #3,205 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,523 | 0.01 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,542 | 0.01 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,422 | 0.01 |
| 2001 | 14 | #5,300 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 24 | #3,483 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,467 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 20 | #3,657 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,380 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,768 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 21 | #3,261 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 29 | #2,595 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,030 | 0.02 |
| 1992 | 30 | #2,439 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,402 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 16 | #3,706 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 21 | #2,952 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,341 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 11 | #4,131 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,788 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,266 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 10 | #3,575 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #3,584 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,392 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 5 | #3,962 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,706 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Macklin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,577 Americans recorded as Macklin, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls and 228 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Macklin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macklin, and how old are they?
2,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,577 Americans ever recorded as Macklin. The median Macklin alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 14.
The 2020 Census counted 1,530 people named Macklin (67 women and girls, 1,463 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,525 born in the U.S. The Census count matches that prediction to within 1%.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 6 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 9 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 231 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 423 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,860 |
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 Macklin born?
The states with the most babies named Macklin are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 30% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 23 | #981 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #594 | 1.6× |
| New York | 16 | #873 | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 14 | #449 | 2.2× |
| Minnesota | 12 | #467 | 1.5× |
| Colorado | 12 | #488 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 11 | #700 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #493 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 8 | #984 | 0.8× |
| Washington | 8 | #774 | 0.6× |
Where Macklin is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Macklin is most over-represented in Missouri: since 1922 it was given 2.2 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 boys’ 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 Macklin 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 4,431 babies since 1880, Macklin is the most given (58% of them). In 2025 it was given to 234 of their 334 babies (70%), again the 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 Macklin
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 Macklin and names like it
- Compare Macklin and MaclinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMacklin peaked in 2025.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Macklin since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Macklin: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Macklin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Macklin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.