Macklin

Macklin is the 5,125th most common surname in the United States, shared by 6,605 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 45,300.

By the numbers

People: 6,605
Rank: 5,125th
How common: 1 in 45,300
Per 100,000: 2.2

Where the name comes from

Origin Gaelic

Ultimately from Irish Mac Gille Eoin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Macklin described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

Black, not Hispanic 51.1%
White, not Hispanic 39.9%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 5.1%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.2%

Notable people called Macklin

Lance Macklin (1919–2002)British racing driver
Alexander Macklin (1889–1967)British doctor
Charles Macklin (1699–1797)Irish actor and playwright who introduced natural acting

People named Macklin with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Macklin

Also a first name

Macklin has been given to 2,577 American babies as a first name since 1922, peaking in 2025. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.