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The first name 
Macon

Macon is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.

When two boys called Macon meet...

… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Macon is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Macon. In the SmartGenius ranking, Macon is #2,707 on the list of most common boys names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Macon.

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

Macon -
at home only in a few regions of the USA

In not even one in five states you will find more than 4 men and boys with the name Macon. This first name might not be completely unknown, but in the entire United States, there are about 414 Americans who bear this name. And these 414 men and boys named Macon live in no more than 7 different states, including for example Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina. In the other 42 states, there are either none or less than a handful boys and men with this name (to explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five men with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Macon lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Macon and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Macon relative to its male population is North Carolina. And even there, only one male in 19,350 would raise his hand if you asked, who is called Macon.

Macon has 5 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 five letters, the name Macon is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five 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.

Other names with 
M, a, c, o and n

If you take all the letters in the name Macon – M, a, c, o and n – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Camon.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Macon

If your name is Macon 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 Macon

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

Mouse

Apple

Cat

Orange

Nut

This is how the name Macon 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 Macon in Braille?

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

Macon

Macon

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

Just use American Sign Language!

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

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

M
A
C
O
N

Have you ever waved the name Macon

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
O
N

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. Macon sounds like this: