Macauley

maleStatistical record

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

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

2registrars recorded it
35times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#95highest recorded position

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1996

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795

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

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2025.

In 2009: #329 among boys in Northern Ireland, #641 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #95 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1996–2025
Highest recorded position: #95 among boys in England and Wales, in 1996 (recorded 1996–2025).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #2952 among boys in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Boys

Macauley appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 30 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 2,159 births with the name.

Macauley 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.

Macauley'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
England and Wales · Boys	#95 (1996)	#95 (1996)	#2952 (2025)	30 of 30	2,159 (1996–2025)	577 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#160 (1997)	#160 (1997)	#329 (2009)	4 of 13	23 (1997–2009)	10 (1997)

Macauley 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 Macauley in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	1,150	4 of 10	288
2000sbusiest	665	10 of 10	67
2010s	289	10 of 10	29
2020s	55	6 of 10	9

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 67 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1996 and 1997, when recorded births fell by 319, from 577 to 258.

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #95 in England and Wales in 1996.

Macauley'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
2025	England and Wales	male	#2952	7	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2921	7	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2007	11	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2320	9	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1984	11	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2076	10	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#2488	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1235	21	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1124	25	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1234	22	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#977	30	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#954	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#805	39	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#767	40	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#635	51	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#641	50	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#527	64	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#441	78	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#560	52	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#434	66	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#424	65	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#441	57	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#382	62	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#337	77	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#287	94	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#206	153	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#201	162	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#140	258	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#95	577	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#329	4	High	Verified
2000	Northern Ireland	male	#206	6	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	male	#272	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	male	#160	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA

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

Where Macauley is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Macauley, between 1996 and 2025. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	1996–2025	30	#95 in 1996
Northern Ireland	1997–2009	4	#160 in 1997

Macauley was ranked #95 in England and Wales · Boys in 1996. 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.

Calum#91
Ethan#92
Rory#93
Josh#94
Zachary#96
Mohammad#97
Danny#98
Kane#99

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 2 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #95 in England and Wales in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Macauley

Macauley at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Macauley across 2 official records

Macauley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Popularity data

Where Macauley is officially recorded

Names published alongside Macauley

Macauley at a glance

Macauley across 2 official records

Macauley by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Names published alongside Macauley