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Malasia vs Mallory

American parents have registered 60,144 Mallorys since 1880, against 748 Malasias. Mallory is still ahead, with 825 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Malasia against Mallory, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Malasia Mallory

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Mallory has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1914 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2013, when Malasia had 38 and Mallory had 992.

Side by side

  Malasia Mallory
Total US births 74860,144
Most in one year 443,348
Babies in 2025 9825
Estimated living today 74059,000
Median age today 1827
Peak year 20061986
Best rank 3,564th girls83rd girls
Rank in 2025 10,107th372nd
First recorded 19921914
Girls / boys 748 / 059,044 / 1,100

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mallorys alive today are over 27; half the Malasias are over 18. That is 9 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Malasia and Mallory.