Macy

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Macy: Recorded since 1997, it reached #161 in 2000, and it stood at #608 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
58times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#161highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824
1999	#536
2000	#161
2001	#179
2002	#185
2003	#181
2004	#176
2005	#163
2006	#174
2007	#170
2008	#167
2009	#186
2010	#217
2011	#210
2012	#255
2013	#280
2014	#448
2015	#444
2016	#427
2017	#514
2018	#513
2019	#778
2020	#624
2021	#709
2022	#1023
2023	#1056
2024	#1302

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 · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 27 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2024: #333 among girls in Scotland, #898 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1302 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3824 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2024
Highest recorded position: #161 among girls in England and Wales, in 2000 (recorded 1997–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #608 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Macy appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 27 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 4,440 births with the name.

Macy across 3 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.

Macy'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 · Girls	#3824 (1997)	#161 (2000)	#1302 (2024)	27 of 28	4,440 (1997–2024)	319 (2007)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#665 (2008)	#395 (2010)	#608 (2025)	15 of 18	86 (2008–2025)	12 (2010)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#372 (2004)	#203 (2012)	#298 (2019)	14 of 16	88 (2004–2019)	9 (2010)

Macy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Macy in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	56	2 of 10	28
2000sbusiest	2,835	10 of 10	284
2010s	1,345	10 of 10	135
2020s	204	5 of 10	41

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 284 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births rose by 225, from 53 to 278.

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

Macy 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 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #161 in England and Wales in 2000.

Macy'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	female	#1302	25	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1056	32	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1023	33	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#709	53	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#624	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#778	48	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#513	83	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#514	83	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#427	104	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#444	98	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#448	97	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#280	168	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#255	192	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#210	239	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#217	233	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#186	289	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#167	318	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#170	319	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#174	303	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#163	312	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#176	283	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#181	265	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#185	233	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#179	235	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#161	278	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#536	53	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#298	5	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#239	7	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#353	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#312	5	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	female	#314	5	High	Verified
2013	Northern Ireland	female	#234	8	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	female	#203	9	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	female	#246	7	High	Verified
2010	Northern Ireland	female	#213	9	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	female	#253	7	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	female	#228	8	High	Verified
2005	Northern Ireland	female	#278	5	High	Verified
2004	Northern Ireland	female	#372	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#608	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#898	3	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#661	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#471	8	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#462	9	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	female	#536	7	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	female	#491	8	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#612	6	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	female	#937	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	female	#395	12	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	female	#665	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#333	10	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 1997 and 2025, ranked in 28 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #161, first reached in 2000.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 319 births, registered in England and Wales in 2007.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 27 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.

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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.

Freyja · #162, 30y
Josie · #160, 30y
Lily-Rose · #160, 29y
Drew · #163, 32y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Aleena · #162, 30y
Ayah · #162, 30y
Freyja · #162, 30y
Josie · #160, 30y

Macy was ranked #161 in England and Wales · Girls in 2000. 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.

Macy 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 Macy without appearing here.

Macy moved ahead of

Cecilie Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3824 and #3824 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #185 and #4137.
Francis Compare
In 2004 they stood at #3824 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2005 that had become #163 and #3970.
Linnea Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3824 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #161 and #3912.
Ellinor Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3824 and #2152 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #536 and #3900.

Moved ahead of Macy

Alma Compare
In 2017 they stood at #471 and #579 in Republic of Ireland · Girls; by 2018 that had become #896 and #512.
Meabh Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1056 and #1288 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1302 and #952.
Ada Compare
In 2015 they stood at #312 and #358 in Northern Ireland · Girls; by 2016 that had become #353 and #137.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #778 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #624 and #460.

Moved the opposite way to Macy

Abigail Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 while Abigail went from #24 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 while Aimee went from #61 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 while Aisling went from #496 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 while Alex went from #179 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Macy

Ada Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 and Ada from #1543 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 and Alma from #2411 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 and Alyssa from #506 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1997 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Macy went from #3824 to #1302 and Amalie from #3824 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 4 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #161 in England and Wales in 2000. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Macy

Macy at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Macy across 3 official records

Macy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Macy appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Macy and the names beside it

Macy moved ahead of

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Macy at a glance

Macy across 3 official records

Macy by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Macy appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Macy

Macy and the names beside it

Macy moved ahead of

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