Mallory
Mallory is ranked 412th among girls in 2024 (765 births). Its best rank was 83rd, in 1986.
- Rank in 2024
- #412up 19 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 7650.05% of girls
- Peak year
- 19863,325 births
- Best rank
- #83in 1986
- Since 1938
- 59,313people given the name
The story in the numbers
58,213 girls have been named Mallory in the United States since 1938, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 3,325 births — 0.19% of all girls recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 384 → 412).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1997, and the 1990s alone account for 28%. It has spent 42 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 1,100 boys have also been given it, 1.9% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mallory | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 10 | |
| 1940s | 115 | |
| 1950s | 256 | |
| 1960s | 220 | |
| 1970s | 250 | |
| 1980s | 15,084 | |
| 1990s | 16,471 | |
| 2000s | 14,344 | |
| 2010s | 8,322 | |
| 2020s | 3,141 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Mallory was the 83rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Mallory
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Maloriepeak 1987
- Malorypeak 1987
- Malloripeak 1986
- Alyssepeak 1988
- Maleriepeak 1987
- Malloriepeak 1987
- Kadypeak 2008
- Leonelapeak 1985
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.