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Macie vs Maciej

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 315 Maciejs. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Macie Maciej

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 1982, when Macie had 16 and Maciej had 5.

Side by side

  Macie Maciej
Total US births 23,503315
Most in one year 90618
Babies in 2025 703under 5
Estimated living today 21,000310
Median age today 1523
Peak year 20111996
Best rank 356th girls3,678th boys
Rank in 2025 438thunranked
First recorded 18821982
Girls / boys 23,472 / 310 / 315

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 Maciejs alive today are over 23; half the Macies are over 15. That is 8 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 Macie Maciej
England and Wales 4,168617
Scotland 37351
Ireland 96173
Northern Ireland 10610

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: Macie and Maciej.