Meaning not yet researched.
Malory: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,516 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,516 in 1987; #8,163 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malory in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,163 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #1,516.
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Malory: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,516 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 85 (1987).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Malory, making it the 8,163rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 705 places from #7,458 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Malory in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,516, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 85. For comparison, it was #10,608 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malory in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 18 babies. In all, 1,399 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 441 babies named Malory.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 141 US girls were named Malory; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mallory (60,144 babies since 1880), Malorie (4,027 babies since 1880) and Mallori (1,577 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Malory 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 | 13 | #8,163 | — | — |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,458 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,574 | — | — |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,898 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,087 | — | — |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,311 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,584 | — | — |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,294 | — | — |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,448 | — | — |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,451 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,608 | — | — |
| 2014 | 18 | #6,896 | — | — |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,263 | — | — |
| 2012 | 22 | #6,038 | — | — |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,520 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,336 | — | — |
| 2008 | 25 | #5,683 | — | — |
| 2007 | 29 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,534 | — | — |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,446 | — | — |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 2002 | 29 | #4,346 | — | — |
| 2001 | 39 | #3,467 | — | — |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,947 | — | — |
| 1999 | 34 | #3,614 | — | — |
| 1998 | 37 | #3,330 | — | — |
| 1997 | 47 | #2,684 | — | — |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1995 | 50 | #2,543 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,735 | — | — |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,260 | — | — |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 1990 | 62 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1989 | 57 | #2,159 | — | — |
| 1988 | 74 | #1,727 | — | — |
| 1987 | 85 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1986 | 69 | #1,706 | — | — |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,572 | — | — |
| 1984 | 33 | #2,760 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,211 | — | — |
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).