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Boy's name · #463 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Mack holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#463 in 2025). About 43,000 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
Its relative popularity was strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, and is strongest in the Midwest in 2020–2025.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 41 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#171 in Scotland (2025) · #311 in New Zealand (2025) · #766 in Ireland (2025) · #1,029 in England & Wales (2025) · #583 in Canada (2024).
Among 179 notable people named Mack:
Sports figures appear 2.5× more often than among typical names — e.g. Mack Horton, Australian freestyle swimmer.
Together with its spelling variant Mac (#696), Mack would rank around #324 with about 1,100 births last year — the newborns split about 63/37 between Mack and Mac.
Similar names: Mac · Van · Mace · Clyde · Marvin · Marlin
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