Mallary vs Mallory
American parents have registered 60,144 Mallorys since 1880, against 758 Mallarys. Mallory is still ahead, with 825 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mallary 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 1983, when Mallary had 20 and Mallory had 699.
Side by side
| Mallary | Mallory | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 758 | 60,144 |
| Most in one year | 69 | 3,348 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | 825 |
| Estimated living today | 740 | 59,000 |
| Median age today | 32 | 27 |
| Peak year | 1986 | 1986 |
| Best rank | 1,691st girls | 83rd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | 372nd |
| First recorded | 1983 | 1914 |
| Girls / boys | 758 / 0 | 59,044 / 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 Mallarys alive today are over 32; half the Mallorys are over 27. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mallary and Mallory.