Mack

What Mack means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Mack yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #463 vs #1,007 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Mack?

US: Rising: up from #661 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1511 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1900, when 250 boys got the name (#96 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 2,557 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 9,065 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 786 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.13 per 1,000 boys), ND (1.79 per 1,000 boys), UT (1.78 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Mack is #463 in the US and #1007 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Mack were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mac390 US · 42 E&W
• Mick22 US
• Mak12 US
• Maik7 US
• Meek5 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Mack

Boys

• Brooks#64Variant of Brook, meaning “swamp, marsh”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Beau#60Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #203 in 2015, #60 in 2025
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*

For a sister

• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Catalina#111Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #325 in 2015, #111 in 2025
• Margot#102Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #592 in 2015, #102 in 2025
• Jane#221“God is gracious”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Mack’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.