Mack
The boy's name Mack has been in the national records since 1880, with 42,900 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 463rd. About 20,000 Macks are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 44.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mack boys named Mack
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 42,900
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 44
- Peak year
- 1942
- Best rank
- 190th
- Rank in 2025
- 463rd
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 180 / 42,720
How old the living Macks are
born that year still alive today
Of the 42,900 babies given the name since 1880, about 20,000 are alive — 47 in every hundred. Roughly 7,100 of them are children and 6,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1981 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
(In sense one) From either the male name Mack or mack, itself from mackerel, which comes from Old French maquerel, from Dutch makelaar. Compare French mec.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Macks
- Mack Sennett (1880–1960)Canadian-American actor, producer and director
- Mack Horton (born 1996)Australian freestyle swimmer
- Mack Swain (1876–1935)American actor, vaudevillian
- Mack 10 (born 1971)American rapper and actor
- Mack Robinson (1914–2000)American track and field athlete
- Mack Mattingly (born 1931)American politician
- Mack Gordon (1904–1959)Polish-American composer and lyricist of songs for the stage and film
- Mack Reynolds (1917–1983)American science fiction writer
People named Mack with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mack is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mack is most concentrated in Mississippi (5.4×), South Carolina (4.2×), Alabama (4.0×), North Carolina (3.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1942
The most popular boys’ names the year Mack peaked:
Mack elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Mack | 462 | 981st |
| Scotland boys | Mack | 177 | 170th |
| Ireland boys | Mack | 22 | 350th |
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
Mack 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.