Macklyn — #5901 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Macklyn

The Social Security Administration has registered 257 babies named Macklyn between 2005 and 2024, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Macklyn currently holds the #5901 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Macklyn is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 73 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Macklyn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Macklyn shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Kansas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Missouri. In total, SSA state-level files list Macklyn in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Macklyn 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 257 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.