Maclane
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- muh-KLAYN
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #9,710 for boys
Maclane is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of the servant of John”. In 2025 it ranked 9,710th for boys in the US (7 babies).
What does Maclane mean?
Scottish: probably a variant of MacLean or McLane, from Gaelic MacGill-Eain
“son of the servant of John”
Probably a variant of the Scottish surname MacLean, from Gaelic MacGill-Eain, meaning son of the servant of John.
Is Maclane a girl's or a boy's name?
Maclane is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maclane in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 9,710th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 240,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 7 boys in the US were named Maclane, making it the 9,710th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 12 boys. It first appears in the records in 1991.
Half of all the boys named Maclane in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maclane in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #9,710 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #9,757 |
| 2022 | 11 | #7,256 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
| 2019 | 8 | #8,883 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,241 |
| 2016 | 7 | #9,659 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 10 | #7,585 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 7 | #9,579 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 7 | #8,921 |
| 2003 | 9 | #7,238 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,718 |
| 2001 | 9 | #6,928 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 8 | #7,132 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,834 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 7 | #6,985 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,366 |
| 1993 | 6 | #7,631 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,228 |
Nicknames for Maclane
- Mac 64 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Maclane
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Brody, Ridge, Kayden, Brayden, Aiden, Lachlan, Declan, Kyaire, Ronan, Deacon, Logan, Raiden
Names related to Maclane
Macklin, Macallan, Macklyn, Maclin, Maclan, Macklen, Macklan, Maclain
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, 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, “Maclane: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maclane, updated 20 October 2026.