Macen
A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 28 babies a year in the US.
Macen by the numbers
Macen was given to 28 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 56 babies in 2010, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Macen
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Macen. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Macsengreat; a form of Maximus141 in England and Wales (2025)
- Masenstone worker; a modern respelling of Mason101 in the US (2017)
- Mavenexpert or connoisseur98 in the US (2017)
- Maceclub-shaped weapon; from a spice plant9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mazendignity, glory, might16 in England and Wales (2025)
- Maxengreatest; a variant of maximus or max42 in the US (2017)
Sounds like Macen
Names that are said the same way as Macen, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
- Maysonstone worker; a respelling of Mason288 in the US (2017)
- Maisonstone worker; a modern respelling of Mason274 in the US (2017)
- Masynstone worker; a modern respelling of Mason100 in the US (2017)
- Massonstone worker, mason; occupational surname used as given name6 in the US (2017)
- Maysen71 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Macen
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