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Macie vs Macoy

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 545 Macoys. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Macie 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

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 2020, when Macie had 570 and Macoy had 36.

Side by side

  Macie Macoy
Total US births 23,503545
Most in one year 90636
Babies in 2025 70316
Estimated living today 21,000540
Median age today 1512
Peak year 20112020
Best rank 356th girls3,136th boys
Rank in 2025 438th5,608th
First recorded 18821996
Girls / boys 23,472 / 310 / 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.

Which name is older

Half of the Macies alive today are over 15; half the Macoys are over 12. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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