Meaning not yet researched.
Macklin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 228 in 2025. Its best rank was #998 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 97% of babies named Macklin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#998 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Macklin: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 228 boys in 2025. Peak: #998 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 228 (2025).
In 2025, 228 US boys were named Macklin, making it the 998th most common boys’ name of the year, up 163 places from #1,161 in 2024. That is 48 more than the 180 boys named Macklin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #998, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 228. For comparison, it was #1,735 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Macklin in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1922 with 5 babies. In all, 2,577 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,064 babies named Macklin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,599 US boys were named Macklin; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 228. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,492 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Macklin ranked highest in Nebraska in 2025, at #415 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Maclin, Maclain and Macklyn are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maclin (443), Maclain (424), Macklyn (351), Macklen (194), Maclan (189), Macklan (145), Macklynn (116), Maclyn (108), Maclen (17), Maklyn (14), Maklin (5).
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 Macklin 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nebraska | 6 | #415 | — |
| Missouri | 14 | #449 | — |
| Minnesota | 12 | #467 | #867 |
| Colorado | 12 | #488 | — |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #493 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 16 | #594 | #1,117 |
| Iowa | 5 | #640 | — |
| Michigan | 11 | #700 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #774 | — |
| New York | 16 | #873 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #877 | — |
| Indiana | 6 | #913 | — |
| California | 23 | #981 | #2,792 |
| Illinois | 8 | #984 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #991 | — |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,101 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,196 | #1,163 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,429 | — |
| Texas | 7 | #2,210 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,264 | 228 | #998 |
| 2024 | — | — | 180 | #1,161 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,936 | 130 | #1,411 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,837 | 151 | #1,279 |
| 2021 | — | — | 175 | #1,150 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,958 | 172 | #1,136 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,008 | 170 | #1,147 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,947 | 151 | #1,231 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,232 | 124 | #1,412 |
| 2016 | — | — | 118 | #1,461 |
| 2015 | — | — | 89 | #1,735 |
| 2014 | — | — | 69 | #2,054 |
| 2013 | — | — | 65 | #2,081 |
| 2012 | — | — | 50 | #2,510 |
| 2011 | — | — | 48 | #2,574 |
| 2010 | — | — | 48 | #2,573 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,447 |
| 2008 | — | — | 23 | #4,346 |
| 2007 | — | — | 32 | #3,413 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,620 |
| 2005 | — | — | 32 | #3,209 |
| 2004 | — | — | 19 | #4,528 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,547 |
| 2002 | — | — | 18 | #4,428 |
| 2001 | — | — | 14 | #5,307 |
| 2000 | — | — | 24 | #3,489 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,472 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,661 |
| 1997 | — | — | 15 | #4,385 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,774 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,266 |
| 1994 | — | — | 29 | #2,600 |
| 1993 | — | — | 40 | #2,035 |
| 1992 | — | — | 30 | #2,444 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,408 |
| 1990 | — | — | 16 | #3,712 |
| 1989 | — | — | 21 | #2,958 |
| 1988 | — | — | 11 | #4,346 |
| 1987 | — | — | 11 | #4,137 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,792 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,254 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,268 |
| 1975 | — | — | 10 | #3,577 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,585 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,393 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,872 |
| 1933 | — | — | 5 | #3,964 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,708 |
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).