Boys' name · since 2000
Mccain
Mccain has 62 recorded births since 2000 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2000 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 62
- total births
- 2000–2020
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 84%
- born in that decade
62 boys have been named Mccain since 2000, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mccain has 62 recorded births among boys since 2000, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2000 to 2020.
- 62 total births
- 2000–2020 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 84% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mccain's 62 recorded births place it above 54% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mccain's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Mccain's SSA record in two at 2006 and the more recent half accounts for 47% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 53%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2007, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2000 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Mccain popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2000–2020
- Peak year (2000)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 21 years of records
Mccain by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Mccain's strongest decade.
52 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 84% of all-time use.
Mccain births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s
2000s
52 births
- 2010s 5
2010s
5 births
- 2020s 5
2020s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 52 births (84% of all-time use).
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- Mccain's decade-level peak was the 2000s (52 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2000–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mccain: Baby Name Since 2000 - 62 Births, Peak 2000." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mccain. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mccain draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.