Boy
Mack
As a boy's name, Mack is understood to mean "son of". It is not as common as it was in the 1940s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. It has quietly persisted through most of the last century of American birth records.
EtymologyShort for surnames beginning "Mac"
EtymologyMeaning "son of"
Births by decade
1900s
1,562
1910s
3,907
1920s
5,512
1930s
4,682
1940s
5,687
1950s
4,227
1960s
2,727
1970s
1,744
1980s
1,306
1990s
1,019
2000s
1,270
2010s
2,299
Peaked in the 1940s · 35,942 total U.S. births since 1900