Maclaine
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-KLAYN
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Maclaine is a girls' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of the servant of St John”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Maclaine mean?
Scottish: Scottish surname, a form of MacLean
“son of the servant of St John”
MacLean comes from Gaelic Mac Gille Eathain, 'son of the servant of St John'.
Is Maclaine a girl's or a boy's name?
Maclaine is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maclaine in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,489th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14 about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Maclaine, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
2025 had the most girls named Maclaine of any year since it first appeared, in 1995.
Half of all the girls named Maclaine in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maclaine in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 6 | #13,456 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 5 | #15,677 |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 5 | #16,507 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 7 | #13,442 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,412 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,049 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,867 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
Nicknames for Maclaine
- Mac 64 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Maclaine
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brynlee, Maeve, Teagan, Brielle, Kinley, Finley, Monroe, Brylee, Logan, Camryn, Mckenna, Rowan
Names related to Maclaine
More Scottish names
Isla, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Brody, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas, Lochlan
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Maclaine: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maclaine, updated 20 October 2026.