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The first name 
Mackson

Mackson is a first name for boys.

Mackson – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Mackson in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Mackson in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Mackson by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Mackson ranks at #3,854. That means there are 3,853 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mackson.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Mackson

Mackson -
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Meeting a man or boy named Mackson is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Mackson can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Mackson. However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Mackson living in one state or another. (If your name is Mackson and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Mackson is in Wisconsin, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Wisconsin, only 0.00015% of all male residents are called Mackson – that’s just one in 660,046! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 5 men going by that name. So, if your name is Mackson, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Mackson has 7 letters 
and begins with an M

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 seven letters, the name Mackson has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Mackson

If your name is Mackson 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...

This is how you spell the name Mackson

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mackson, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Cat

Koala

Sun

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Mackson is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Mackson in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Mackson

Mackson

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Mackson

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Mackson is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

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A
C
K
S
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N

Have you ever waved the name Mackson

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
K
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Beeping like crazy...

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. Mackson sounds like this: