Malory
Malory was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,161 among girls’ names; 1,399 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,370 Americans named Malory and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malory by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malory?
#8,161 among girls’ names, 2025
Malory rose from #10,603 in 2015 to #8,161 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 5.6 to 8.1 per million.
85 babies in 1987, the peak
Malory peaked in 1987, when 85 girls were given it, #1,515 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,161 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,454 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,569 | 11.2 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,893 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,083 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,306 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,580 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,290 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,444 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,446 | 5.1 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #10,603 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,894 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,259 | 9.7 |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,035 | 12.5 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,516 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,079 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,335 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,680 | 13.2 |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,047 | 15.1 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,533 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,442 | 16.8 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,420 | 24.0 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,270 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,342 | 16.1 |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,463 | 21.7 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,942 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,610 | 19.2 |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,327 | 20.9 |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,681 | 27.0 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,606 | 27.4 |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,538 | 28.4 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,730 | 25.2 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,255 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,707 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,016 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,111 | 32.7 |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,154 | 30.9 |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,725 | 41.6 |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,515 | 48.9 |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,705 | 40.2 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,571 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,759 | 19.6 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,210 | 10.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malory a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malory 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 Malory: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malory, and how old are they?
1,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,399 Americans ever recorded as Malory. The median Malory alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,445 people named Malory (1,412 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 679 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 510 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 185 |
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).
How common is the spelling Malory?
Malory is a less common spelling of Mallory: SSA has recorded 1,399 Malory and 60,144 Mallory since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 69,449 babies since 1880, Malory is the fourth most given (2.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 910 babies (1.4%), the third most given that year.
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 Malory
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 Malory and names like it
- Compare Malory and MalloryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMalory peaked in 1987.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malory since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Malory.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Malory alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.