Mallary
Mallary was last recorded in 2018, when 5 babies were given it; 758 Americans have been recorded with it between 1983 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mallary by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mallary?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,233, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
69 babies in 1986, the peak
Mallary peaked in 1986, when 69 girls were given it, #1,704 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 5 | #17,233 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 6 | #15,694 | 3.4 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,217 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,558 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,525 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,588 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 15 | #8,303 | 8.2 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,865 | 6.3 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,716 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,713 | 8.4 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 16 | #7,361 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 20 | #6,124 | 10.9 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,304 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,976 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,506 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,036 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 27 | #4,255 | 15.2 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,967 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 32 | #3,582 | 18.4 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,785 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,775 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,881 | 9.0 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,474 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 31 | #3,546 | 16.8 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,774 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 30 | #3,589 | 15.8 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,195 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 39 | #2,724 | 21.9 |
| 1987 | 44 | #2,377 | 25.3 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,704 | 40.2 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,962 | 32.5 |
| 1984 | 36 | #2,599 | 21.4 |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,895 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mallary a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mallary has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mallary: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mallary, and how old are they?
An estimated 742 Americans named Mallary and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 26 and 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 732 people named Mallary (720 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 746 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 64,755 babies since 1880, Mallary is the fourth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 none of their 849 babies recorded by SSA was a Mallary (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 Mallary
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 Mallary and names like it
- Compare Mallary and MalloryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMallary peaked in 1986.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mallary since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Mallary.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mallary alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.