Malary
Malary was last recorded in 2012, when 6 babies were given it; 123 Americans have been recorded with it between 1984 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,156, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
17 babies in 1986, the peak
Malary peaked in 1986, when 17 girls were given it, #4,653 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,156 | 3.4 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,316 | 4.4 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,927 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,595 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,992 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,467 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,826 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,146 | 4.5 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,169 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,707 | 3.3 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 8 | #9,277 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,116 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,584 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,653 | 9.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,093 | 3.5 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,724 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malary has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malary, and how old are they?
An estimated 120 Americans named Malary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 27 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 179 people named Malary (170 women and girls, 9 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 121 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Malary?
Malary is a less common spelling of Malarie: SSA has recorded 123 Malary and 773 Malarie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 64,441 babies since 1880, Malary is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 845 babies recorded by SSA was a Malary (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malary
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Malary and names like it
- Compare Malary and MalarieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMalary peaked in 1986.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Malary.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Malary alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.