Mac is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Mac isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Mac ranks 847. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Mac. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mac.
You may not know anyone named Mac, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 39 states are home to men and boys named Mac. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Mac living in one state or another. If your name is Mac and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Utah, which has the most people named Mac relative to the population, you still have to ask 8,253 men and boys their names before you hear Mac as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With only three letters, the name Mac is obviously very short. In fact, only 1.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly three letters. Just 0.2% of all first names are even shorter and only have two letters, while nearly 99% of all boys’ and girls’ names use more than three letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mac and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mac, you can simply say:
Mouse
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mac
Mac
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
C
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
C
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mac sounds like this:
