Maceo

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Maceo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 68 births. Its best rank was 621st, in 1898.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 680.00% of boys
Peak year: 201795 births
Best rank: #621in 1898
Since 1898: 3,129people given the name

Babies named Maceo, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

3,129 boys have been named Maceo in the United States since 1898, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 95 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1995, and the 2010s alone account for 21%. It has spent 3 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Maceo
1890s	22
1900s	53
1910s	102
1920s	197
1930s	172
1940s	151
1950s	158
1960s	139
1970s	308
1980s	164
1990s	260
2000s	388
2010s	670
2020s	345

In 2017, its biggest year

Maceo was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.

Names that rose and fell with Maceo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.