Macon

A boys’ name with no widely documented etymology — two syllables, given to 44 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
44
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Macon by the numbers

Macon was given to 44 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 48 babies in 2015, making it a 2010s name.

What we can tell you about Macon

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 Macon. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Masonstone worker13,560 in the US (2017)
  • Maxongreatest; a form of Maximus95 in the US (2017)
  • Mabonson of Mabon; a divine youth in Welsh mythology18 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Macen28 in the US (2017)
  • Macoy19 in the US (2017)
  • Maceon8 in the US (2017)

Sounds like Macon

Names that are said the same way as Macon, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.

  • Makeenstrong or firm4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Makan6 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Macon

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