Given name & surname
Macintyre
“the son of the carpenter”
Macintyre is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “the son of the carpenter.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “the son of the carpenter.”
Where it comes from
Macintyre is a form of McIntyre. McIntyre comes from Scottish Gaelic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1997. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Macintyre through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 82
- 82 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2012
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 7
- #10,294 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 7 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 10,294 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 9 in 2012. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,640 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Macintyre’s family of names
Macintyre has a related form in Macintire. Macintyre has a related form in McIntyre. Macintyre has a related form in Mclntire.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
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