Cormac
2025 SSA
About Cormac
Both offbeat and upbeat, this evocative traditional Irish name that runs through Celtic mythology is known here via award-winning novelist Cormac McCarthy (born Charles). The author's adopted name is related to Cormac Mac Airt, one of the great legendary high kings of Ireland.
In two of the Harry Potter movies, Cormac McLaggen is a Gryffindor student.
A popular choice in Northern Ireland where it made the Top 100 in a recent year, it is also familiar in Ireland (where it last ranked in 2017) and England and Wales where it was given to 26 boys in a recent count.
Despite cool nickname Mac, it has never made it onto the US Top 1000, though it has been used by a solid 150 boys in each recent year.
Pronounced KOR-mak.
As of October 2026, Cormac ranked #1298 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #1033 in 2014, Nameberry popularity #424.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #1,033 | 196 | 102 |
| 2015 | #1,103 | 175 | 91.3 |
| 2016 | #1,137 | 170 | 89.6 |
| 2017 | #1,099 | 177 | 95.6 |
| 2018 | #1,300 | 140 | 77.1 |
| 2019 | #1,304 | 141 | 78.6 |
| 2020 | #1,225 | 153 | 88.6 |
| 2021 | #1,218 | 158 | 90.3 |
| 2022 | #1,270 | 152 | 87.1 |
| 2023 | #1,238 | 158 | 92.4 |
| 2024 | #1,254 | 157 | 91.1 |
| 2025 | #1,298 | 150 | 87.8 |
World rankings
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Cormac on lists
Famous Cormacs
- Cormac Mac Airt
ancient king from Ireland and ruler of Tara
- Charles "Cormac" McCarthy
American novelist and screenwriter
- Cormac Murphy
O'Connor, Irish cardinal
- Cormac Breslin
Irish politician
Cormac in pop culture
- Cormac Fitzpatrick
character on TV's Veronica Mars
- Cormac Praxus
character in DC comics
- Cormac McLaggen
character in the Harry Potter series
- Cormac Limbs
character in the Cirque du Freak series
- Shay Cormac
character in Assassin´s Creed Rogue