Malerie
Malerie was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,365 among girls’ names; 1,261 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Malerie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malerie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malerie?
#7,365 among girls’ names, 2025
Malerie rose from #7,482 in 2015 to #7,365 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 9.0 to 9.3 per million.
88 babies in 1987, the peak
Malerie peaked in 1987, when 88 girls were given it, #1,478 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,365 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,780 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,518 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,505 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,313 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,303 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,502 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,108 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 15 | #7,694 | 8.7 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,848 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,482 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 17 | #7,200 | 9.5 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,595 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,034 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 25 | #5,473 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,051 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,640 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 24 | #5,881 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 26 | #5,467 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 28 | #5,045 | 14.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,373 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,957 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,759 | 14.8 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,841 | 13.9 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,393 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,941 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 44 | #3,025 | 24.8 |
| 1998 | 35 | #3,462 | 19.8 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,330 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 30 | #3,683 | 17.1 |
| 1995 | 32 | #3,461 | 18.2 |
| 1994 | 31 | #3,573 | 17.4 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,637 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,458 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,420 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 37 | #3,043 | 19.5 |
| 1989 | 47 | #2,460 | 25.5 |
| 1988 | 61 | #1,975 | 34.3 |
| 1987 | 88 | #1,478 | 50.6 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,549 | 46.0 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,961 | 32.5 |
| 1984 | 45 | #2,213 | 26.7 |
| 1983 | 21 | #3,760 | 12.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malerie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malerie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malerie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malerie, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,261 Americans ever recorded as Malerie. The median Malerie alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 1,087 people named Malerie (1,082 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,172 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 595 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 462 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 181 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Malerie born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,364 | 0.4× |
Where Malerie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malerie is most over-represented in Texas: since 1983 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malerie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 11,908 babies since 1880, Malerie is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 143 babies (10%), again the third most given.
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 Malerie
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 Malerie and names like it
- Compare Malerie and MallorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMalerie peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malerie since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Malerie.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Malerie alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.