Meaning not yet researched.
Mahlon: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 44 in 2025. Its best rank was #491 in 1896.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #491 in 1896; #2,867 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mahlon in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,867 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1896, at #491.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Mahlon: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 44 boys in 2025. Peak: #491 in 1896 · most boys in one year: 95 (1919).
In 2025, 44 US boys were named Mahlon, making it the 2,867th most common boys’ name of the year, up 387 places from #3,254 in 2024. That is 7 more than the 37 boys named Mahlon in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #491, reached in 1896. The most boys given the name in a single year was 95, in 1919. For comparison, it was #2,668 in 2015 and #1,047 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mahlon in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 14 babies. In all, 5,683 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 825 babies named Mahlon.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 445 US boys were named Mahlon; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 38,820 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mahlon ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #822 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maylin (3,133 babies since 1880), Maelyn (2,490 babies since 1880) and Malin (1,070 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mailyn, Maylen and Malone are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mailyn (936), Maylen (847), Malone (727), Mailen (683), Malon (407), Maylyn (368), Maylon (338), Maelin (306), Mailin (238), Malan (214), Malyn (176), Maylan (37), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mahlon in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 10 | #822 | #522 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,406 | — |
| New York | 5 | #1,939 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 44 | #2,867 |
| 2024 | — | — | 37 | #3,254 |
| 2023 | — | — | 45 | #2,830 |
| 2022 | — | — | 52 | #2,608 |
| 2021 | — | — | 49 | #2,638 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,468 | 37 | #3,109 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,077 | 45 | #2,790 |
| 2018 | — | — | 54 | #2,434 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,105 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,750 |
| 2015 | — | — | 46 | #2,668 |
| 2014 | — | — | 37 | #3,071 |
| 2013 | — | — | 43 | #2,747 |
| 2012 | — | — | 38 | #3,039 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,041 | 46 | #2,656 |
| 2010 | — | — | 45 | #2,711 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,735 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,694 | 35 | #3,261 |
| 2007 | — | — | 49 | #2,555 |
| 2006 | — | — | 43 | #2,726 |
| 2005 | — | — | 38 | #2,829 |
| 2004 | — | — | 35 | #2,932 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,604 |
| 2002 | — | — | 45 | #2,324 |
| 2001 | — | — | 51 | #2,078 |
| 2000 | — | — | 43 | #2,281 |
| 1999 | — | — | 42 | #2,221 |
| 1998 | — | — | 37 | #2,376 |
| 1997 | — | — | 48 | #1,923 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,129 |
| 1995 | — | — | 35 | #2,278 |
| 1994 | — | — | 30 | #2,542 |
| 1993 | — | — | 36 | #2,191 |
| 1992 | — | — | 34 | #2,239 |
| 1991 | — | — | 39 | #1,974 |
| 1990 | — | — | 38 | #2,001 |
| 1989 | — | — | 30 | #2,274 |
| 1988 | — | — | 25 | #2,410 |
| 1987 | — | — | 31 | #2,002 |
| 1986 | — | — | 32 | #1,902 |
| 1985 | — | — | 23 | #2,334 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,134 |
| 1983 | — | — | 32 | #1,775 |
| 1982 | — | — | 28 | #1,970 |
| 1981 | — | — | 30 | #1,884 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,891 |
| 1979 | — | — | 27 | #1,978 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,175 |
| 1977 | — | — | 34 | #1,631 |
| 1976 | — | — | 33 | #1,633 |
| 1975 | — | — | 33 | #1,582 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,961 |
| 1973 | — | — | 20 | #2,091 |
| 1972 | — | — | 29 | #1,626 |
| 1971 | — | — | 25 | #1,811 |
| 1970 | — | — | 34 | #1,449 |
| 1969 | — | — | 26 | #1,628 |
| 1968 | — | — | 23 | #1,676 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,433 |
| 1966 | — | — | 28 | #1,474 |
| 1965 | — | — | 28 | #1,470 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,302 |
| 1963 | — | — | 25 | #1,615 |
| 1962 | — | — | 29 | #1,469 |
| 1961 | — | — | 39 | #1,273 |
| 1960 | — | — | 32 | #1,417 |
| 1959 | — | — | 42 | #1,206 |
| 1958 | — | — | 36 | #1,297 |
| 1957 | — | — | 33 | #1,378 |
| 1956 | — | — | 37 | #1,275 |
| 1955 | — | — | 39 | #1,206 |
| 1954 | — | — | 38 | #1,221 |
| 1953 | — | — | 50 | #1,029 |
| 1952 | — | — | 57 | #951 |
| 1951 | — | — | 50 | #1,002 |
| 1950 | — | — | 46 | #1,047 |
| 1949 | — | — | 77 | #784 |
| 1948 | — | — | 75 | #792 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #993 |
| 1946 | — | — | 43 | #1,053 |
| 1945 | — | — | 47 | #949 |
| 1944 | — | — | 52 | #886 |
| 1943 | — | — | 44 | #1,014 |
| 1942 | — | — | 60 | #847 |
| 1941 | — | — | 65 | #774 |
| 1940 | — | — | 53 | #866 |
| 1939 | — | — | 56 | #816 |
| 1938 | — | — | 63 | #776 |
| 1937 | — | — | 61 | #791 |
| 1936 | — | — | 53 | #842 |
| 1935 | — | — | 62 | #787 |
| 1934 | — | — | 75 | #706 |
| 1933 | — | — | 68 | #742 |
| 1932 | — | — | 70 | #754 |
| 1931 | — | — | 69 | #747 |
| 1930 | — | — | 71 | #761 |
| 1929 | — | — | 78 | #704 |
| 1928 | — | — | 66 | #811 |
| 1927 | — | — | 79 | #740 |
| 1926 | — | — | 80 | #714 |
| 1925 | — | — | 84 | #707 |
| 1924 | — | — | 83 | #727 |
| 1923 | — | — | 90 | #678 |
| 1922 | — | — | 91 | #683 |
| 1921 | — | — | 81 | #736 |
| 1920 | — | — | 93 | #666 |
| 1919 | — | — | 95 | #623 |
| 1918 | — | — | 71 | #777 |
| 1917 | — | — | 90 | #627 |
| 1916 | — | — | 79 | #667 |
| 1915 | — | — | 68 | #722 |
| 1914 | — | — | 36 | #925 |
| 1913 | — | — | 40 | #741 |
| 1912 | — | — | 29 | #828 |
| 1911 | — | — | 20 | #721 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #745 |
| 1909 | — | — | 13 | #824 |
| 1908 | — | — | 10 | #927 |
| 1907 | — | — | 12 | #799 |
| 1906 | — | — | 12 | #735 |
| 1905 | — | — | 8 | #976 |
| 1904 | — | — | 11 | #748 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #978 |
| 1902 | — | — | 11 | #716 |
| 1901 | — | — | 10 | #711 |
| 1900 | — | — | 6 | #1,259 |
| 1899 | — | — | 9 | #761 |
| 1897 | — | — | 9 | #764 |
| 1896 | — | — | 18 | #491 |
| 1895 | — | — | 12 | #630 |
| 1894 | — | — | 7 | #919 |
| 1893 | — | — | 5 | #1,136 |
| 1892 | — | — | 10 | #728 |
| 1891 | — | — | 12 | #547 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,096 |
| 1889 | — | — | 8 | #760 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #790 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #886 |
| 1886 | — | — | 9 | #676 |
| 1885 | — | — | 6 | #893 |
| 1884 | — | — | 12 | #562 |
| 1883 | — | — | 13 | #508 |
| 1882 | — | — | 12 | #566 |
| 1881 | — | — | 7 | #753 |
| 1880 | — | — | 14 | #494 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).