Mccrae
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mih-KRAY
- Origin
- Scottish
- US rank, 2025
- #8,239 for boys
Mccrae is a boys' name of Scottish origin, meaning “son of grace”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).
What does Mccrae mean?
Scottish: from the Scottish surname MacRae, Gaelic Mac Rath
“son of grace”
From the Scottish clan surname MacRae, Gaelic Mac Rath, 'son of grace'; John McCrae wrote the poem In Flanders Fields.
Is Mccrae a girl's or a boy's name?
Mccrae is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mccrae in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,239th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 9 about 1 in 190,000 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, 9 boys in the US were named Mccrae, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,292nd. Its busiest year was 2022, with 21 boys. It first appears in the records in 1998.
Half of all the boys named Mccrae in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mccrae in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,239 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,237 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,661 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,697 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,161 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,292 |
| 2019 | 10 | #7,638 |
| 2018 | 16 | #5,536 |
| 2017 | 11 | #7,091 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,600 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,035 |
| 2014 | 13 | #6,303 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,236 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,231 |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 5 | #12,361 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #11,464 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 7 | #7,553 |
Names like Mccrae
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kayden, Finnegan, Kyaire, Declan, Raiden, Ronan, Finn, Deacon, Cassian, Brody, Callan, Brayden
Names related to Mccrae
More Scottish names
Isla, Finley, Logan, Arabella, Cameron, Bonnie, Paisley, Carson, Maxwell, Brodie, Finlay, Blair, Lennox, Skye, Knox, Dallas
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, “Mccrae: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mccrae, updated 20 October 2026.