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Mcclain vs Mccoy

American parents have registered 4,673 Mccoys since 1880, against 586 Mcclains. Mccoy is still ahead, with 314 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mcclain against Mccoy, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mcclain Mccoy

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

Of the 107 years in which either name was published, Mccoy for 103 years and Mcclain for 4 years. The lead changed hands 8 times.

Side by side

  Mcclain Mccoy
Total US births 5864,673
Most in one year 28314
Babies in 2025 28314
Estimated living today 5604,100
Median age today 147
Peak year 20222025
Best rank 4,701st boys805th boys
Rank in 2025 4,857th805th
First recorded 19181905
Girls / boys 92 / 494105 / 4,568

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 Mcclains alive today are over 14; half the Mccoys are over 7. That is 7 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: Mcclain and Mccoy.