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Mackie

Mackie reached its high-water mark in 1942 at number 1,193, and has been recorded 1,629 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 750 Mackies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 69.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mackie boys named Mackie

Girls and boys called Mackie

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Mackie crossed from girls to boys in 1926, and has stayed there for 5 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 72% boys, and in 1955 it was 77%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 26 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
1,629
Estimated living today
750
Median age today
69
Peak year
1942
Best rank
1,193rd
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1890
Girls / boys
597 / 1,032

How old the living Mackies are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,629 babies given the name since 1890, about 750 are alive — 46 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1956 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 Mackie is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1942

The most popular boys’ names the year Mackie peaked:

All the names of 1942

Mackie elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
Scotland boys Mackie 6 687th

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.

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Mackie against another name

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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.