Macyn
Feminine · “of Massy”
Macyn is given to both — 932 girls and 142 boys since 1880. See other names given to both
Macy is a Norman surname, a French place name, and, since 1858, one of the most recognizable shop signs in America. Macyn is the same name with the ending swapped so that a child does not spend her life sharing a spelling with a department store.
How old is the name Macyn?
Macyn first appears in US birth records in 1995 — 30 years ago. The typical Macyn alive today was born around 2012, making them about 13 years old. About 900 people named Macyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Macyn most popular?
Macyn peaked in 2011, reaching #2511 nationally. Today it ranks #6325, 3,814 places below that high. See the whole 2011 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Maccius to Macyn
The story of Macyn
The Macys were among the earliest English families in Nantucket, which is how the surname became so deeply American, and Rowland Hussey Macy's New York shop fixed the spelling in the national eye. When the surname began to be used for girls in the 1990s it arrived carrying that shop with it, and the respellings that followed all work to break the association while keeping the sound: Macey, Maci, Macie, Macyn. The -yn ending was borrowed from Camryn and Jaslyn, where it had already been established as a way of marking a surname as a girl's name. Macyn's best year was 2011.
Meaningscholars disagree
of Massy, from a Gallo-Roman estate name based on Maccius
The surname Macy is generally traced to one of several places in Normandy called Massy or Macey, whose names come from a Gallo-Roman landholder called Maccius or Mattius plus the estate suffix -acum. A second explanation, often printed on name sites, derives it from the medieval given name Matthew; that route is possible for some bearers but is not the main one. The -yn ending is modern and carries no meaning.
How the name formed
- Maccius
- Massy
- Macy
- Macyn
Related forms: Massy · Macey · Maci
Pronouncing Macyn
MAY-sin
Two syllables, stress on the first, ending in a reduced vowel. Some families say MAY-see-in with three, but two is the standard.
Nicknames for Macyn
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1995
- Most girls named
- 201172 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #2511reached in 2011
- Change vs 2024
- −5.3%18 in 2025, from 19
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Macyn in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Massy in French — related form
- Macey in English — spelling variant
- Maci in English — spelling variant
Macyns among us
people named Macyn are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 89,293 born in 2025 was named Macyn
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Macyn
- #6325
- Macyn on the 2025 chart
- #909
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Macyn went to 18 girls in 2025, but Masyn is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 51, which makes it the 909th most-given girls’ name of the year — 5,416 places above the chart.
- Masyn33
- Macyn18
About 1 girl in 31,515 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 89,293 for Macyn itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Ave test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Macyn's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Ave climbed just as high around 1944, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Ave's path sketches the road Macyn is walking now.
Macyn sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Macyn beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Macyn in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Keeps the sound of Macy while stepping away from the store.
- The -yn ending places it comfortably beside Camryn, Rylyn and Emryn.
- Short, easy to say, and hard to shorten into something unwanted.
- It will be read as Mason at speed, and written as Macy on nearly every form.
- The -yn ending is strongly dated to the 2000s and 2010s.
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Frequently asked
- How many Macyns are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 900 people named Macyn are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Macyn?
- Macyn is one of 2 recorded spellings. Masyn is the more common one — 33 births in 2025 against 18 for Macyn.
- How popular is the name Macyn in 2025?
- Macyn ranks #6325 among US girl names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Macyn?
- About 1 in every 89,293 US girls born in 2025 was named Macyn — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Macyn with classmates?
- Macyn will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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