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Macie vs Mackinley

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 787 Mackinleys. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Macie Mackinley

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 1998, when Macie had 316 and Mackinley had 28.

Side by side

  Macie Mackinley
Total US births 23,503787
Most in one year 90637
Babies in 2025 70313
Estimated living today 21,000780
Median age today 1514
Peak year 20112018
Best rank 356th girls4,768th girls
Rank in 2025 438th7,885th
First recorded 18821992
Girls / boys 23,472 / 31431 / 356

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.

Both names abroad

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

Country Macie Mackinley
England and Wales 4,16826

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 Mackinley.