Meaning not yet researched.
Mali: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 37 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,700 in 2019.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,700 in 2019; #3,954 in 2025. About 82% of babies named Mali in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,954 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2019, at #2,700.
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Mali: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 37 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,700 in 2019 · most girls in one year: 65 (2008).
In 2025, 37 US girls were named Mali, making it the 3,954th most common girls’ name of the year, down 334 places from #3,620 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 43 girls named Mali in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,700, reached in 2019. The most girls given the name in a single year was 65, in 2008. For comparison, it was #3,742 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 8 US boys were named Mali, making it the 9,406th most common boys’ name of the year, down 672 places from #8,734 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 9 boys named Mali in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,733, reached in 1976. The most boys given the name in a single year was 11, in 2021. For comparison, it was #13,309 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mali in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 7 babies. In all, 1,495 US babies have been given the name, 94% of them girls and 6.0% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 466 babies named Mali.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 459 US girls were named Mali; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 64. In 2025 that was about 1 in 43,440 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Malia (31,606 babies since 1880), Maliah (5,394 babies since 1880), Mallie (3,869 babies since 1880) and Malea (2,540 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maily 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Atayal and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Maily (588).
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 Mali in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 37 | #3,954 | 8 | #9,406 |
| 2024 | 43 | #3,620 | 9 | #8,734 |
| 2023 | 59 | #2,875 | 9 | #8,671 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,453 | 9 | #8,737 |
| 2021 | 48 | #3,325 | 11 | #7,415 |
| 2020 | 49 | #3,213 | — | — |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,700 | 5 | #13,397 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,417 | — | — |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 2016 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2015 | 41 | #3,742 | 5 | #13,309 |
| 2014 | 52 | #3,171 | 5 | #13,316 |
| 2013 | 43 | #3,616 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,406 | — | — |
| 2011 | 48 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 2010 | 42 | #3,728 | — | — |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,230 | 5 | #13,749 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,575 | — | — |
| 2006 | 37 | #4,053 | — | — |
| 2005 | 43 | #3,484 | 5 | #12,628 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,059 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,345 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,398 | — | — |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,583 | 6 | #9,204 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,145 | — | — |
| 1996 | 14 | #6,604 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,145 | — | — |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,951 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,900 | 5 | #9,313 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,356 | — | — |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,305 | — | — |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,284 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,930 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,399 | — | — |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,489 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,753 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,457 | — | — |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,731 | — | — |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,910 | — | — |
| 1981 | 12 | #5,767 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,421 | — | — |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,370 | — | — |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,647 | — | — |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,209 | 7 | #4,733 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,622 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,071 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,806 | — | — |
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).