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Macie vs Macyn

American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 1,074 Macyns. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Macie 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

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 2015, when Macie had 770 and Macyn had 73.

Side by side

  Macie Macyn
Total US births 23,5031,074
Most in one year 90682
Babies in 2025 70318
Estimated living today 21,0001,100
Median age today 1513
Peak year 20112011
Best rank 356th girls2,511th girls
Rank in 2025 438th6,325th
First recorded 18821995
Girls / boys 23,472 / 31932 / 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 Macies alive today are over 15; half the Macyns are over 13. That is 2 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: Macie and Macyn.