Cormac
A boys’ name of Irish origin, meaning raven or charioteer.
Babies a year
177
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#1124
26 babies
Cormac by the numbers
In 2025, 26 babies in England and Wales were named Cormac. In the US, 177 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 196 babies in 2014, making it a 2010s name.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Cormac. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Other names that mean a bird
Like Cormac, each of these has a bird in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Gavinwhite hawk4,134 in the US (2017)
- Jonahdove2,523 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
- Phoenixmythical bird that rises from ashes2,184 in the US (2017)
- Corbinraven; from corvus1,434 in the US (2017)
- Jaya form of names beginning with J; also the bird856 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Cormac
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