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Maci vs Macoy

American parents have registered 21,348 Macis since 1880, against 545 Macoys. Maci is still ahead, with 352 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Maci against Macoy, 1880 to 2025 0 500 1k 1.5k 2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Maci Macoy

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

Maci has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1973 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2020, when Maci had 678 and Macoy had 36.

Side by side

  Maci Macoy
Total US births 21,348545
Most in one year 1,73736
Babies in 2025 35216
Estimated living today 21,000540
Median age today 1312
Peak year 20112020
Best rank 180th girls3,136th boys
Rank in 2025 770th5,608th
First recorded 19731996
Girls / boys 21,342 / 60 / 545

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.

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