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Mak

Boy · MAK · Scottish

Mak is a boys' name of Scottish origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,799th for boys in the US (12 babies).

Where does Mak come from?

Scottish: probably a respelling of Mack

Say it
MAK

Is Mak a girl's or a boy's name?

Mak is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mak in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,799among boys
Babies in 2025
12about 1 in 140,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 12 boys in the US were named Mak, making it the 6,799th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,976th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 18 boys. It first appears in the records in 1956.

Half of all the boys named Mak in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,070 boys in the US were given Mak or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #328, up from #6,799 for this spelling alone.

1956Busiest: 18 in 20222025
Mak in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202512#6,799
202410#7,760
202318#5,250
202218#5,211
20219#8,161
202014#5,976
20197#9,750
201811#7,132
201710#7,542
20166#10,739
20156#10,638
201411#7,043
20139#8,113
20128#8,858
20110–
20106#10,759
20096#10,989
20085#12,546
20075#12,361
20060–
20055#11,464
20040–
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19690–
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19600–
19590–
19580–
19575#3,991
19565#3,940

Names like Mak

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Mak

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