Mccrae — #5356 US boys' name
208 babies named Mccrae in U.S. Social Security records since 1998, with the highest year being 2022. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 62% of names given to boys today.
50% of everyone ever named Mccrae was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Mccrae in 2022 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mccrae
The Social Security Administration has registered 208 babies named Mccrae between 1998 and 2024, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mccrae currently holds the #5356 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mccrae performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 103 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Mccrae shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Mccrae in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mccrae in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 208 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mccrae at a glance
Outside the top 1,000Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mccrae popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1998
- Peak year (2022)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
Currently ranks #5356 among boys.
208 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2022 with 21 births in a single year.
Mccrae popularity over time — girls
5 total births recorded since 2015 (Mccrae as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Mccrae accounts for 2% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mccrae by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 103 births that decade — 50% of Mccrae's all-time total
Mccrae decade highlights
- Peak decade 103 births
- Runner-up 77 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Mccrae's strongest decade
103 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 50% of all-time use.
Mccrae by state
Where Mccrae concentrates geographically — total births since 1998
Top 5 states
- Texas 7.7% of nationwide
- Utah 2.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Texas accounts for 7.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1998–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.