Macklin

What Macklin means

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

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #998 vs #5,137 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Macklin?

US: Rising: up from #1729 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 228 boys got the name (#998 that year). First in the US records in 1922.

How common

• About 1 in 7,492 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 90,645 baby boys in England and Wales 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 NE (0.68 per 1,000 boys), MO (0.5 per 1,000 boys), MN (0.49 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Macklin is #998 in the US and #5137 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.4% of US babies named Macklin were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maclin26 US
• Maclan16 US
• Macklen13 US
• Macklan13 US
• Macklyn6 US
• Maclain6 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 Macklin

Boys

• Dean#125“valley”^*
• Ellis#243“benevolent, kind”^*
• Elliott#160“my God is Yahweh”^*
• Wells#345“spring”^*
• Royce#499Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #499 vs #1,307 in 2025
• Graham#120“gravel + homestead”^*

For a sister

• Blakely#191Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #191 vs #1,407 in 2025
• Blake#295“black”^*
• Sutton#181“south + town”^*
• Everleigh#194“wild boar + woodland clearing”^*
• Carter#454“son of Arthur”^*
• Sawyer#290“one who saws”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under From a surname, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Macklin’s. Rank is US 2025.