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Macee vs Macie

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 1,875 Macees. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Macee against Macie, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Macee Macie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Macie has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Macee had 5 and Macie had 16.

Side by side

  Macee Macie
Total US births 1,87523,503
Most in one year 98906
Babies in 2025 12703
Estimated living today 1,90021,000
Median age today 1815
Peak year 20122011
Best rank 1,983rd girls356th girls
Rank in 2025 8,362nd438th
First recorded 19811882
Girls / boys 1,875 / 023,472 / 31

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Macees alive today are over 18; half the Macies are over 15. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Macee Macie
England and Wales 294,168

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Macee and Macie.