Macallister

Macallister as a first name is attracting new attention as the name chosen by Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and venture capitalist Zack Bogue for their young son. Macallister is usually heard as a patronymic surname, meaning son of Alasdair or Alistair or any one of the spellings of the Scottish form of Alexander. Like all other names of this type, Macallister leads to the cute short form Mac.

Pronounced muh-KAL-is-tur.

As of October 2026, Macallister ranked #11780 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #5298 in 2002.