Macy

What Macy means

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

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,483 babies; 390 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Macy?

US: Falling: down from #414 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #444 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2003, when 1,483 girls got the name (#219 that year). First in the US records in 1885.

How common

• About 1 in 4,121 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 14,071 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,627 baby girls 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 WV (0.99 per 1,000 girls), IA (0.85 per 1,000 girls), MN (0.84 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Macy is #718 in the US and #1639 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Macy were girls.

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

• Maisy365 US · 81 E&W
• Maci352 US · 5 E&W
• Macey129 US · 25 E&W
• Maizy103 US
• Masa36 US · 23 E&W
• Mayci54 US · 4 E&W
• Mazzy34 US
• Mazi15 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 Macy

Girls

• Mackenzie#228“son, descendant + of Coinneach”^*
• Hailey#104“hay + clearing”^*
• Madison#40Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1970, with 5 babies
• Kaylee#255Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #61 in 2015, #255 in 2025
• Mckenzie#576Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2000, with 2,528 babies; 517 in 2025
• Sydney#348Variant of Sidney, meaning “wide + island”^*

For a brother

• Donovan#495“descendant of (a person named) brown & black”^*
• Gage#973Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 2,939 babies; 235 in 2025
• Conner#864Variant of Connor, meaning “lover of hounds”^*
• Drake#827“dragon”^*
• Riley#207“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Keaton#769possibly “hedge, enclosure + farmstead, settlement”^*

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 Macy’s. Rank is US 2025.