Mallory
About 60,144 American babies have been named Mallory since 1914, most of them around 1986. In 2025 it ranked 372nd. About 59,000 Mallorys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mallory boys named Mallory
Girls and boys called Mallory
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Mallory crossed from boys to girls in 1948, and has stayed there for 8 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 67% girls, and in 2025 it was 100%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 78 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 60,144
- Estimated living today
- 59,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 1986
- Best rank
- 83rd
- Rank in 2025
- 372nd
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 59,044 / 1,100
How old the living Mallorys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 60,144 babies given the name since 1914, about 59,000 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 15,000 of them are children and 510 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
From an Anglo-Norman nickname for an unfortunate person, from Old French maleure, malheure (“unhappy, unlucky”) (whence French malheur).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mallorys
- Mallory Swanson (born 1998)American soccer player
- Mallory Jansen (born 1989)Australian actress
- Mallory Burdette (born 1991)American tennis player
- Mallory Franklin (born 1994)British slalom canoeist
- Mallory Comerford (born 1997)American swimmer
People named Mallory with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mallory is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mallory is most concentrated in Louisiana (1.7×), Alabama (1.6×), Indiana (1.6×), Kansas (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1986
The most popular girls’ names the year Mallory peaked:
Mallory elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Mallory | 2,195 | 590th |
| France boys | Mallory | 835 | 949th |
| England and Wales girls | Mallory | 343 | 982nd |
| Belgium girls | Mallory | 50 | 686th |
| Belgium boys | Mallory | 49 | 1,005th |
| Scotland girls | Mallory | 15 | 429th |
| England and Wales boys | Mallory | 12 | 4,107th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mallory: rank by region
In 2022, Mallory was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Mallory | 498 | 5 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Related names
Mallory against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.