# Macauley (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/macauley/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 290 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 260 / 30 (10% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 2,162, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1991 | 5 | 14,471 |
| 1992 | 10 | 8,479 |
| 1993 | 5 | 14,811 |
| 1996 | 5 | 14,871 |
| 1998 | 5 | 15,564 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 7 | 9,258 |
| 2004 | 8 | 8,623 |
| 2007 | 8 | 9,422 |
| 2008 | 7 | 10,603 |
| 2009 | 5 | 13,723 |
| 2011 | 6 | 11,733 |
| 2013 | 6 | 11,616 |
| 2014 | 6 | 11,601 |
| 2015 | 6 | 11,579 |
| 2017 | 8 | 9,382 |
| 2020 | 5 | 13,316 |
| 2021 | 5 | 13,339 |
| 2022 | 6 | 11,753 |
| 2024 | 11 | 7,557 |
| 2025 | 6 | 11,490 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 3 | 3,795 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 40 | 767 |
| 2012 | 39 | 805 |
| 2013 | 30 | 954 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,144 |
| 2015 | 30 | 977 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,234 |
| 2017 | 25 | 1,124 |
| 2018 | 21 | 1,235 |
| 2019 | 8 | 2,488 |
| 2020 | 10 | 2,076 |
| 2021 | 11 | 1,984 |
| 2022 | 9 | 2,320 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 7 | 2,921 |
| 2025 | 7 | 2,952 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.