Mcclain
- #10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Given to boys 84.3% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1951 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 494since 1918
Mcclain over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #10,312 | 9 | #5,075 | 19 |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #4,701 | 21 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | #5,041 | 18 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | — | #8,819 | 8 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | — | #5,289 | 17 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | — | #6,603 | 12 | |
| 2012 | — | #8,864 | 8 | |
| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | #13,448 | 7 | #6,036 | 14 |
| 2009 | — | #8,310 | 9 | |
| 2008 | — | #11,037 | 6 | |
| 2007 | — | #7,590 | 10 | |
| 2006 | — | #6,904 | 11 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,875 | 13 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,492 | 14 | |
| 2003 | — | #5,877 | 12 | |
| 2002 | — | #7,055 | 9 | |
| 2001 | — | #5,667 | 12 | |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 | #6,314 | 9 |
| 1997 | — | #4,451 | 14 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,535 | 10 | |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,452 | 10 | |
| 1993 | — | #6,816 | 7 | |
| 1992 | — | #5,236 | 10 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #5,823 | 8 | |
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| 1986 | — | #6,721 | 5 | |
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| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | — | #6,238 | 5 | |
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| 1978 | — | #3,857 | 9 | |
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| 1975 | — | #4,797 | 6 | |
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| 1953 | — | #3,798 | 5 | |
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| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | — | #3,728 | 6 | |
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First appearance
1918
The first year at least five boys were named Mcclain! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1974, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mcclain is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Mcclain in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 586 spots since 2024 (#5,443 → #4,857)
- 184 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #4,857)
- 432 spots since 2015 (#5,289 → #4,857)
Rise & fade · boys
33 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1951 at #3,714 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1952, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 83,143
- Highest: 1 in 83,143 boys born in 2022 were named Mcclain (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,714 in 1951, was only 1 in 376,567 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 23.7% of all boys named Mcclain (117) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 11 | #3,728 (1918) | #3,948 |
| 1920s | 5 | #4,197 (1925) | #4,197 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 10 | #3,714 (1951) | #3,756 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 15 | #3,857 (1978) | #4,327 |
| 1980s | 17 | #4,973 (1984) | #5,977 |
| 1990s | 97 | #4,451 (1997) | #5,759 |
| 2000s | 115 | #4,066 (2000) | #6,787 |
| 2010s | 117 | #5,289 (2015) | #7,190 |
| 2020s | 107 | #4,701 (2022) | #5,303 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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