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Macey vs Macyn

American parents have registered 11,587 Maceys since 1880, against 1,074 Macyns. Macey is still ahead, with 129 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Macey against Macyn, 1880 to 2025 0 150 300 450 600 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Macey Macyn

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

Macey has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1900 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Macey had 248 and Macyn had 73.

Side by side

  Macey Macyn
Total US births 11,5871,074
Most in one year 56182
Babies in 2025 12918
Estimated living today 11,0001,100
Median age today 2013
Peak year 20012011
Best rank 494th girls2,511th girls
Rank in 2025 1,611th6,325th
First recorded 19001995
Girls / boys 11,536 / 51932 / 142

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 Maceys alive today are over 20; half the Macyns are over 13. That is 7 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.

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