Macsen

What Macsen means

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

Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #314 vs #3,036 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Macsen?

US: Steady: #3231 in 2015, #3036 now. England & Wales: Rising: up from #682 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 40 boys got the name (#3036 that year). First in the US records in 2002.

How common

• About 1 in 42,702 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,929 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.

US vs UK

Macsen is #3036 in the US and #314 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 Macsen were boys.

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

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Maxen20 US · 3 E&W
• Mackson13 US
• Macksen7 US
• Maksen5 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 Macsen

Boys

• Emerson#254Editor’s note Up from #300 in 2015 to #254 in 2025 in the US
• Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
• Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
• Silas#71Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #71 vs #585 in 2025
• Lincoln#69“the Roman settlement Lindum Colonia”^*
• Kingston#204Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #204 vs #2,014 in 2025

For a sister

• Paisley#67“pasture”^*
• Olive#197Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #47 vs #197 in 2025
• Charlotte#2Form of Charles, meaning “free man”^*
• Scarlett#32Editor’s note Down from #22 in 2015 to #32 in 2025 in the US
• Vivienne#172Variant of Vivian, possibly meaning “alive”^*
• Genevieve#148possibly “kin, family + woman, wife”^*

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 Macsen’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.