Macarthur vs Macie
American parents have registered 23,503 Macies since 1880, against 1,291 Macarthurs. Macie is still ahead, with 703 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Macarthur Macie
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 143 years in which either name was published, Macie for 118 years and Macarthur for 25 years. The lead changed hands 14 times.
- 1882–1941 Macie ahead
- 1942–1952 Macarthur ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1953–1956 Macie ahead
- 1959–1971 Macarthur ahead, apart from one short spell
- 1972–1977 Macie ahead
- 1978–1980 Macarthur ahead
- 1981–2025 Macie ahead
6 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Macarthur | Macie | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,291 | 23,503 |
| Most in one year | 142 | 906 |
| Babies in 2025 | 6 | 703 |
| Estimated living today | 990 | 21,000 |
| Median age today | 46 | 15 |
| Peak year | 1942 | 2011 |
| Best rank | 512th boys | 356th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 10,695th | 438th |
| First recorded | 1941 | 1882 |
| Girls / boys | 0 / 1,291 | 23,472 / 31 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Macarthurs alive today are over 46; half the Macies are over 15. That is 31 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Macarthur Mississippi (15.4×), Alabama (6.9×)
- Macie Utah (3.3×), Idaho (2.8×), North Carolina (2.1×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Macarthur and Macie.