Maclin
Maclin was given to 26 boys in 2025, #4,098 among boys’ names; 443 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maclin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maclin?
#4,098 among boys’ names, 2025
Maclin fell from #3,837 in 2015 to #4,098 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 14.6 to 15.2 per million.
42 babies in 2018, the peak
Maclin peaked in 2018, when 42 boys were given it, #2,871 among boys’ names. The 26 births of 2025 are 62% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #4,098 | 15.2 |
| 2024 | 19 | #5,183 | 11.0 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,172 | 15.2 |
| 2022 | 32 | #3,584 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,041 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,007 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 29 | #3,765 | 16.2 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,871 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,407 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 40 | #2,963 | 21.1 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #3,837 | 14.6 |
| 2014 | 16 | #5,617 | 8.3 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,348 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,618 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,600 | 11.1 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,925 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 7 | #10,572 | 3.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #10,597 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,035 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,576 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maclin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 443 Americans recorded as Maclin, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 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 Maclin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maclin, and how old are they?
An estimated 439 Americans named Maclin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 5 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 371 people named Maclin (33 women and girls, 338 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 290 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% 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 Maclin?
Maclin is a less common spelling of Macklin: SSA has recorded 443 Maclin and 2,577 Macklin since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,954 babies since 1880, Maclin is the third most given (8.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 337 babies (7.7%), again the third 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 Maclin
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 Maclin and names like it
- Compare Maclin and MacklinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Maclin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maclin alive today were born 2013-2025.
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