Given name & surname
Macky
“the son of”
Macky is a variant of Mac. One interpretation is “the son of.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Macky is a variant of Mac. One interpretation is “the son of.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1925. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Macky through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 137
- 137 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1958
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 1958. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 298 as a first name in 2020; 201 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.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Macky
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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