Macoy
Macoy was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,752 among boys’ names; 545 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 Macoy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Macoy?
#5,752 among boys’ names, 2025
Macoy fell from #3,944 in 2015 to #5,752 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 14.1 to 9.4 per million.
36 babies in 2020, the peak
Macoy peaked in 2020, when 36 boys were given it, #3,176 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,752 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,353 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,174 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,793 | 12.0 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,711 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,176 | 20.9 |
| 2019 | 30 | #3,684 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 19 | #5,032 | 10.5 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,037 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 25 | #4,159 | 13.2 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 27 | #3,944 | 14.1 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,207 | 12.5 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,817 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 33 | #3,334 | 17.4 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,761 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 18 | #5,161 | 9.4 |
| 2009 | 19 | #5,037 | 9.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,628 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 17 | #5,343 | 8.2 |
| 2006 | 13 | #6,323 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 15 | #5,464 | 7.5 |
| 2004 | 16 | #5,157 | 8.1 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,436 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,845 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,552 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,165 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,890 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,131 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,838 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,875 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Macoy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Macoy has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Macoy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Macoy, and how old are they?
An estimated 539 Americans named Macoy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 432 people named Macoy (24 women and girls, 408 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 423 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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 8,713 babies since 1880, Macoy is the fifth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 391 babies (4.1%), again the fifth 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 Macoy
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 Macoy and names like it
- Compare Macoy and MaceoBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMacoy peaked in 2020.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Macoy.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Macoy alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.