Meaning not yet researched.
Maceo: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 65 in 2025. Its best rank was #621 in 1898.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #621 in 1898; #2,200 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maceo in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,200 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1898, at #621.
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Maceo: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 65 boys in 2025. Peak: #621 in 1898 · most boys in one year: 95 (2017).
In 2025, 65 US boys were named Maceo, making it the 2,200th most common boys’ name of the year, down 50 places from #2,150 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 69 boys named Maceo in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #621, reached in 1898. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 2017. For comparison, it was #2,064 in 2015 and #1,990 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maceo in 126 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1898 with 13 babies. In all, 3,195 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 670 babies named Maceo.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 722 US boys were named Maceo; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 95. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,278 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maceo ranked highest in California in 2025, at #1,550 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Macy (33,304 babies since 1880), Macie (23,503 babies since 1880), Maci (21,348 babies since 1880) and Macey (11,587 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Maceo in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,550 | #1,105 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,716 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 65 | #2,200 |
| 2024 | — | — | 69 | #2,150 |
| 2023 | — | — | 61 | #2,307 |
| 2022 | — | — | 58 | #2,429 |
| 2021 | — | — | 79 | #1,925 |
| 2020 | — | — | 79 | #1,884 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,249 |
| 2018 | — | — | 63 | #2,199 |
| 2017 | — | — | 95 | #1,675 |
| 2016 | — | — | 91 | #1,715 |
| 2015 | — | — | 69 | #2,064 |
| 2014 | — | — | 74 | #1,951 |
| 2013 | — | — | 50 | #2,483 |
| 2012 | — | — | 43 | #2,802 |
| 2011 | — | — | 67 | #2,030 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,308 |
| 2009 | — | — | 54 | #2,394 |
| 2008 | — | — | 46 | #2,704 |
| 2007 | — | — | 44 | #2,749 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,724 |
| 2005 | — | — | 35 | #2,994 |
| 2004 | — | — | 34 | #2,992 |
| 2003 | — | — | 33 | #2,971 |
| 2002 | — | — | 26 | #3,416 |
| 2001 | — | — | 32 | #2,906 |
| 2000 | — | — | 41 | #2,362 |
| 1999 | — | — | 35 | #2,532 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,375 |
| 1997 | — | — | 35 | #2,378 |
| 1996 | — | — | 35 | #2,319 |
| 1995 | — | — | 27 | #2,733 |
| 1994 | — | — | 23 | #3,072 |
| 1993 | — | — | 18 | #3,590 |
| 1992 | — | — | 20 | #3,296 |
| 1991 | — | — | 16 | #3,757 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,111 |
| 1989 | — | — | 18 | #3,282 |
| 1988 | — | — | 17 | #3,156 |
| 1987 | — | — | 8 | #5,265 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,219 |
| 1985 | — | — | 16 | #3,033 |
| 1984 | — | — | 13 | #3,387 |
| 1983 | — | — | 15 | #3,019 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,145 |
| 1981 | — | — | 13 | #3,339 |
| 1980 | — | — | 24 | #2,192 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,977 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,174 |
| 1977 | — | — | 17 | #2,616 |
| 1976 | — | — | 31 | #1,695 |
| 1975 | — | — | 32 | #1,614 |
| 1974 | — | — | 45 | #1,261 |
| 1973 | — | — | 15 | #2,569 |
| 1972 | — | — | 37 | #1,403 |
| 1971 | — | — | 45 | #1,248 |
| 1970 | — | — | 37 | #1,388 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,589 |
| 1968 | — | — | 11 | #2,676 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,143 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,408 |
| 1965 | — | — | 11 | #2,564 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,374 |
| 1963 | — | — | 14 | #2,266 |
| 1962 | — | — | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1961 | — | — | 15 | #2,202 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,629 |
| 1959 | — | — | 10 | #2,756 |
| 1958 | — | — | 14 | #2,225 |
| 1957 | — | — | 14 | #2,247 |
| 1956 | — | — | 13 | #2,333 |
| 1955 | — | — | 17 | #1,944 |
| 1954 | — | — | 17 | #1,937 |
| 1953 | — | — | 17 | #1,931 |
| 1952 | — | — | 23 | #1,603 |
| 1951 | — | — | 18 | #1,809 |
| 1950 | — | — | 15 | #1,990 |
| 1949 | — | — | 14 | #2,079 |
| 1948 | — | — | 18 | #1,792 |
| 1947 | — | — | 16 | #1,961 |
| 1946 | — | — | 13 | #2,105 |
| 1945 | — | — | 15 | #1,830 |
| 1944 | — | — | 10 | #2,409 |
| 1943 | — | — | 27 | #1,355 |
| 1942 | — | — | 17 | #1,778 |
| 1941 | — | — | 10 | #2,431 |
| 1940 | — | — | 11 | #2,264 |
| 1939 | — | — | 16 | #1,768 |
| 1938 | — | — | 12 | #2,145 |
| 1937 | — | — | 16 | #1,801 |
| 1936 | — | — | 13 | #2,023 |
| 1935 | — | — | 28 | #1,286 |
| 1934 | — | — | 16 | #1,828 |
| 1933 | — | — | 15 | #1,878 |
| 1932 | — | — | 20 | #1,628 |
| 1931 | — | — | 21 | #1,570 |
| 1930 | — | — | 15 | #2,028 |
| 1929 | — | — | 19 | #1,768 |
| 1928 | — | — | 14 | #2,224 |
| 1927 | — | — | 20 | #1,777 |
| 1926 | — | — | 19 | #1,828 |
| 1925 | — | — | 24 | #1,561 |
| 1924 | — | — | 23 | #1,659 |
| 1923 | — | — | 26 | #1,477 |
| 1922 | — | — | 18 | #1,933 |
| 1921 | — | — | 15 | #2,226 |
| 1920 | — | — | 19 | #1,852 |
| 1919 | — | — | 13 | #2,338 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,480 |
| 1917 | — | — | 9 | #2,870 |
| 1916 | — | — | 16 | #1,908 |
| 1915 | — | — | 11 | #2,395 |
| 1914 | — | — | 13 | #1,829 |
| 1913 | — | — | 10 | #1,893 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,168 |
| 1911 | — | — | 6 | #1,661 |
| 1910 | — | — | 5 | #1,754 |
| 1909 | — | — | 11 | #934 |
| 1907 | — | — | 6 | #1,286 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,199 |
| 1905 | — | — | 7 | #1,050 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,233 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,246 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,156 |
| 1900 | — | — | 8 | #1,015 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #760 |
| 1898 | — | — | 13 | #621 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).