Mac

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mac: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mac: Recorded since 1969, its highest recorded position is #139, reached in 2024.

4registrars recorded it
47times a registrar ranked it
56years from first to last
#139highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1235
1997	#2337
1998	#2419
1999	#1505
2000	#1048
2001	#1202
2002	#1077
2003	#1326
2004	#1347
2005	#982
2006	#1048
2007	#1440
2008	#1048
2009	#1358
2010	#1407
2011	#1303
2012	#1507
2013	#1294
2014	#1560
2015	#1786
2016	#2804
2017	#1703
2018	#1097
2019	#1506
2020	#1230
2021	#1218
2022	#1314
2023	#754
2024	#1025

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Republic of Ireland in 16 of the 56 years from 1969 to 2024.

In 2024: #139 among boys in Scotland, #520 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #1025 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1969–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1969
First recorded at #270 among boys in Republic of Ireland in 1969 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1025 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Mac appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, with 29 ranked years and 488 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Boys, from 1969.

Mac across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mac's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#270 (1969)	#230 (1972)	#520 (2024)	16 of 56	64 (1969–2024)	7 (1972)
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#754 (2023)	#1025 (2024)	29 of 29	488 (1996–2024)	44 (2023)

Mac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mac in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	26	4 of 10	7
2000s	165	10 of 10	17
2010s	161	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	136	5 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mac appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #139 in Scotland in 2024.

Mac's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1025	29	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#754	44	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1218	22	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1097	25	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1703	14	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1786	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1560	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1294	19	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1507	16	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1407	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1358	17	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1048	24	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1440	15	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1048	21	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#982	22	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1347	13	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1326	12	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1077	15	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1048	14	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2419	4	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#520	6	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#516	6	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
1996	Republic of Ireland	male	#369	3	High	Verified
1987	Republic of Ireland	male	#303	3	High	Verified
1985	Republic of Ireland	male	#304	3	High	Verified
1982	Republic of Ireland	male	#286	4	High	Verified
1980	Republic of Ireland	male	#288	4	High	Verified
1979	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	3	High	Verified
1978	Republic of Ireland	male	#283	4	High	Verified
1977	Republic of Ireland	male	#333	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	male	#316	3	High	Verified
1974	Republic of Ireland	male	#321	3	High	Verified
1972	Republic of Ireland	male	#230	7	High	Verified
1970	Republic of Ireland	male	#305	3	High	Verified
1969	Republic of Ireland	male	#270	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#139	34	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1969 and 2024, ranked in 41 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #139, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 44 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 55 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Mabon · #1309, 23y
Macaulay · #143, 29y
Macauley · #95, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Sol · #139, 45y
Arron · #138, 44y
Kira · #140, 39y
Daniella · #141, 39y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Jaroslaw · #139, 36y
Jayne · #139, 53y
Lorenzo · #139, 31y
Ailish · #138, 62y

Mac was ranked #139 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mac and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mac without appearing here.

Mac moved ahead of

Isak Compare
In 2007 they stood at #1440 and #1440 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2008 that had become #1048 and #3687.
Graeme Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1505 and #1281 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1048 and #2501.
Kim Compare
In 1998 they stood at #2419 and #1367 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #1505 and #2943.
Barry Compare
In 2016 they stood at #2804 and #2027 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #1703 and #3040.

Moved ahead of Mac

Magnus Compare
In 1996 they stood at #1235 and #1337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1997 that had become #2337 and #1113.
Tadhg Compare
In 2014 they stood at #1560 and #1630 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #1786 and #996.
Kasper Compare
In 2006 they stood at #1048 and #1168 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #1440 and #820.
Theodor Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1294 and #1339 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2014 that had become #1560 and #1012.

Moved the opposite way to Mac

Aaron Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 while Aaron went from #174 to #79.
Adam Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 while Adam went from #196 to #25.
Alexander Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 while Alexander went from #135 to #44.
Arthur Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 while Arthur went from #115 to #47.

Moved the same way as Mac

Adrian Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 and Adrian from #48 to #200.
Alan Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 and Alan from #15 to #240.
Alfred Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 and Alfred from #163 to #430.
Andrew Compare
Between 1969 and 2024 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Mac went from #270 to #520 and Andrew from #36 to #106.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1969 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #139 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mac

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What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mac across 2 official records

Mac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Mac across 2 official records

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