Mali — #3587 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mali

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,368 babies named Mali between 1967 and 2024, spanning 58 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mali currently holds the #3587 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 65 babies received it in a single year. Mali is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 81 additional births since 1976.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mali performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 451 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mali shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 87 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mali in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mali in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,368 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.