Cormac
The boy's name Cormac has been in the national records since 1956, with 3,698 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 1,297th. About 3,600 Cormacs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Cormac
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,698
- Estimated living today
- 3,600
- Median age today
- 11
- Peak year
- 2014
- Best rank
- 1,032nd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,297th
- First recorded
- 1956
How old the living Cormacs are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,698 babies given the name since 1956, about 3,600 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 2,700 of them are children and 4 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Irish
from Old Irish Cormac.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Cormacs
- Cormac McCarthy (1933–2023)American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter
- Cormac Murphy-O'Connor (1932–2017)Catholic cardinal
People named Cormac with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Cormac is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Cormac is most concentrated in Massachusetts (5.3×), Colorado (3.4×), Washington (2.3×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2014
The most popular boys’ names the year Cormac peaked:
Cormac elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Cormac | 5,729 | 42nd |
| Northern Ireland boys | Cormac | 1,200 | 37th |
| England and Wales boys | Cormac | 925 | 417th |
| Scotland boys | Cormac | 237 | 198th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Cormac against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.