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Mallory vs Maloni

American parents have registered 60,144 Mallorys since 1880, against 507 Malonis. Mallory is still ahead, with 825 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Mallory Maloni

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 2020, when Mallory had 521 and Maloni had 50.

Side by side

  Mallory Maloni
Total US births 60,144507
Most in one year 3,34856
Babies in 2025 82540
Estimated living today 59,000500
Median age today 275
Peak year 19862023
Best rank 83rd girls2,975th girls
Rank in 2025 372nd3,712th
First recorded 19141999
Girls / boys 59,044 / 1,100507 / 0

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 Malonis are over 5. That is 22 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: Mallory and Maloni.