Mack

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mack, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.

• Kenzie
• Cormac
• Jace
• Nash
• Reid
• Clark
• Rex
• Cole
• Jude
• Luke
• Huck
• Rhett

From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.

Mack is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Spanish surname17 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Argentina

  Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

  Also written Măck, Måćk, Máck, Māçk, Måck

• a separate name2 spellings in the group

  Also written Mäck

• Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada

  Languages: Hindi, Urdu

  Also written Mãçk, Mâçk, Mäck

• Polish surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Maćk

• Greek surname6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Greece, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Mak, Μακ, Mac, Maç, Μάκ

• Italian surname2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Italy, United Kingdom, Canada

  Also written Mäck

67 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Mack is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, from OC Maccos, an Irish adoption of ON Magnus; first attested Maccus de Leum 1176 P (Nb)

  as a name·A Dictionary of English Surnames

• from the Germanic personal name Macco, Makko, a pet form of a compound name with the initial element mag- ‘kinsman’.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• Originally a common nickname for bearers of any of the Scottish and Irish patronymic surnames beginning with Mac or Mc, this is now sometimes used as an independent first name, especially in the U.S.

  as a name·A concise dictionary of first names

• Shortened form of any of the many Scottish and Irish names beginning M(a)c-.

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

• from the Old Norse personal name Makkr, a form of Magnus (Old Irish Maccus).

  as a name·Dictionary of American Family Names

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

• Willard Mackb. 1873USAmerican actor, film director (1873-1934)
• Helen Mackb. 1913USAmerican actress (1913-1986)
• Connie Mack IIIb. 1940USAmerican politician from Florida
• Reinhold Mackb. 1949DEGerman music producer and audio engineer (born 1949)
• Craig Mackb. 1971USAmerican rapper (1970–2018)
• David W. Mackb. 1972USartist
• Timothy Mackb. 1972USAmerican pole vaulter
• Allison Mackb. 1982USAmerican former actress
• Shelvin Mackb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
• Christy Mackb. 1991USAmerican nude model and pornographic actress

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Mack mean, and where does it come from?

from the Germanic name stem *mag- 'be able, have power' or *mag- 'kinsman'; often from names with -mag/-magan Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.

What are other forms of the name Mack?

In the etymology graph, Mac is a form of the same name in other languages.

In which country does Mack have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 71 thousand people named Mack, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mack.

How do you pronounce Mack?

In English /mæk/ (Wiktionary).

How common is the name Mack?

In the United States, the national register counted 71,056 people named Mack in 2010, about 1 in 4.7 thousand residents.

How common is Mack compared with other names?

In the United States, Mack is the 375th most common surname of 6,282,806 surnames recorded there.