Maclain
Maclain was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,488 among boys’ names; 424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maclain by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maclain?
#11,488 among boys’ names, 2025
Maclain fell from #7,356 in 2015 to #11,488 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 3.5 per million.
22 babies in 2007, the peak
Maclain peaked in 2007, when 22 boys were given it, #4,452 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,488 | 3.5 |
| 2024 | 9 | #8,723 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 9 | #8,659 | 5.3 |
| 2022 | 12 | #7,072 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,582 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,452 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,410 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 12 | #6,968 | 6.6 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,216 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 8 | #9,366 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #7,356 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,352 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,337 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 5 | #13,458 | 2.6 |
| 2011 | 12 | #6,848 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,244 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 9 | #8,736 | 4.5 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,179 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 22 | #4,452 | 10.6 |
| 2006 | 18 | #4,973 | 8.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,463 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 17 | #4,914 | 8.6 |
| 2003 | 16 | #4,951 | 8.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,617 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,551 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,147 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,922 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 13 | #5,068 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 15 | #4,381 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,525 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,691 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,747 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,943 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,969 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,043 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maclain a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 424 Americans recorded as Maclain, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Maclain: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maclain, and how old are they?
An estimated 417 Americans named Maclain and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 12 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 411 people named Maclain (39 women and girls, 372 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,905 babies since 1880, Maclain is the fourth most given (8.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 337 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 Maclain
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 Maclain and names like it
- Compare Maclain and MacklinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaclain peaked in 2007.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maclain since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Maclain.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maclain alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.