Mallory
Mallory was given to 825 girls in 2025, #372 among girls’ names; 60,144 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 58,600 Americans named Mallory 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 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mallory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mallory mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mallory is “a unisex given name transferred from the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “unhappy, unlucky” (malheure) and “bad” (mal) and “fortune” (eur).
From an Anglo-Norman nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maleure, malheure (“unhappy, unlucky”) (whence French malheur), from mal (“bad”) + eur (“fortune”).
/ˈmæləɹi/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mallory?
#372 among girls’ names, 2025
Mallory rose from #392 in 2015 to #372 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.47 to 0.51 per 1,000.
3,348 babies in 1986, the peak
Mallory peaked in 1986, when 3,348 babies were given it (3,325 girls, #83 among girls’ names). The 825 births of 2025 are 25% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 825 | #372 | 0.51 |
| 2024 | 768 | #412 | 0.47 |
| 2023 | 716 | #432 | 0.45 |
| 2022 | 583 | #533 | 0.36 |
| 2021 | 556 | #549 | 0.34 |
| 2020 | 521 | #566 | 0.32 |
| 2019 | 548 | #557 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 564 | #551 | 0.33 |
| 2017 | 561 | #553 | 0.32 |
| 2016 | 738 | #437 | 0.42 |
Every recorded year (86)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 840 | #392 | 0.47 |
| 2014 | 851 | #384 | 0.48 |
| 2013 | 992 | #328 | 0.57 |
| 2012 | 960 | #326 | 0.55 |
| 2011 | 1,098 | #290 | 0.62 |
| 2010 | 1,173 | #281 | 0.66 |
| 2009 | 1,211 | #269 | 0.66 |
| 2008 | 1,354 | #253 | 0.72 |
| 2007 | 1,406 | #247 | 0.73 |
| 2006 | 1,470 | #234 | 0.77 |
| 2005 | 1,586 | #219 | 0.86 |
| 2004 | 1,828 | #188 | 1.0 |
| 2003 | 1,429 | #230 | 0.78 |
| 2002 | 1,259 | #253 | 0.70 |
| 2001 | 1,336 | #238 | 0.74 |
| 2000 | 1,466 | #213 | 0.81 |
| 1999 | 1,483 | #208 | 0.84 |
| 1998 | 1,525 | #204 | 0.86 |
| 1997 | 1,589 | #190 | 0.91 |
| 1996 | 1,629 | #183 | 0.93 |
| 1995 | 1,695 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 1994 | 1,605 | #187 | 0.90 |
| 1993 | 1,602 | #181 | 0.89 |
| 1992 | 1,757 | #172 | 1.0 |
| 1991 | 1,804 | #163 | 1.0 |
| 1990 | 1,782 | #162 | 0.94 |
| 1989 | 1,969 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1988 | 2,366 | #120 | 1.3 |
| 1987 | 3,138 | #91 | 1.8 |
| 1986 | 3,325 | #83 | 1.9 |
| 1985 | 2,039 | #144 | 1.2 |
| 1984 | 1,469 | #186 | 0.87 |
| 1983 | 689 | #334 | 0.41 |
| 1982 | 45 | #2,239 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,202 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,438 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 28 | #3,041 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,342 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,497 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,909 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 28 | #2,717 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,799 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,298 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,129 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,407 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,380 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,968 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,758 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 21 | #2,745 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,228 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,112 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 19 | #2,973 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,462 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 26 | #2,392 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 26 | #2,391 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,462 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,373 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 29 | #2,099 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 25 | #2,251 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,916 | 0.02 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,962 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,421 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,954 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,054 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 25 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,889 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 34 | #1,617 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,162 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,561 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,976 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 9 | #3,275 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,389 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,969 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,666 | under 0.01 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,729 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mallory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 60,144 Americans recorded as Mallory, 98% are girls and 2% boys. In 2025 it went to 825 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mallory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mallory, and how old are they?
58,600 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 60,144 Americans ever recorded as Mallory. The median Mallory alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 52,306 people named Mallory (51,594 women and girls, 712 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55,164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 52 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 584 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 572 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 22,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,010 |
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 Mallory born?
The states with the most babies named Mallory are Texas, Florida and North Carolina, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 74 | #454 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 51 | #363 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 50 | #219 | 1.1× |
| Ohio | 38 | #294 | 1.3× |
| California | 37 | #808 | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | #300 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 32 | #345 | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 31 | #290 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 29 | #294 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 28 | #374 | 1.0× |
Where Mallory is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mallory is most over-represented in Alabama: since 1914 it was given 1.8 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 Mallory 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 69,874 babies since 1880, Mallory is the most given (86% of them). In 2025 it was given to 825 of their 923 babies (89%), again the 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 Mallory
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 Mallory and names like it
- Compare Mallory and MallorieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMallory peaked in 1986.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mallory since 1910.
- From surnamesWiktionary’s origin for Mallory: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Mallory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mallory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.