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Mc

Girl · em-SEE

Mc is a girls' name. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Mc come from?

Probably initials, or the Gaelic prefix Mc- meaning son of

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

Mc is a girls' name.

How popular is Mc in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 1999, with 28 girls. It first appears in the records in 1989.

Half of all the girls named Mc in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 1999, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 1999, 80% of the babies named Mc in the US were girls.

1989Busiest: 28 in 19992005
Mc in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20055#16,455
20047#12,754
20035#15,777
200214#7,438
200110#9,344
200010#9,156
199928#4,084
199819#5,359
199722#4,656
199616#5,766
199520#4,841
199425#4,110
19936#11,773
19928#9,483
19910–
19909#8,495
19895#12,356

Names like Mc

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