Maclyn
Maclyn was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,345 among girls’ names; 108 Americans have been recorded with it since 1927 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maclyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maclyn?
#16,345 among girls’ names, 2025
Maclyn fell from #9,893 in 2015 to #16,345 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 6.2 to 3.1 per million.
18 babies in 2018, the peak
Maclyn peaked in 2018, when 18 babies were given it (12 girls, #8,953 among girls’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,345 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,747 | under 5 | |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,664 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,323 | under 5 | |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,563 | under 5 | |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,954 | under 5 | |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,257 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 12 | #8,953 | 6 | #11,615 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,318 | under 5 | |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,554 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,893 | under 5 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,758 | under 5 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 8 | #3,335 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Maclyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 108 Americans recorded as Maclyn, 87% are girls and 13% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls; SSA lists no boys 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 Maclyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maclyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 99 Americans named Maclyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 204 people named Maclyn (112 women and girls, 92 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 61 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.3 times 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 1,200 babies since 1880, Maclyn is the fourth most given (9.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 40 babies (13%), again the fourth 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 Maclyn
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 Maclyn and names like it
- Compare Maclyn and MakalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaclyn peaked in 2018.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Maclyn.
- Names starting with MMost given first.