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Malone

Malone reached its high-water mark in 2024 at number 4,701, and has been recorded 727 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,045th. About 670 Malones are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Malone boys named Malone

Girls and boys called Malone

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 338 girls and 389 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 16 to 19.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 14 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
727
Estimated living today
670
Median age today
10
Peak year
2024
Best rank
4,701st
Rank in 2025
5,045th
First recorded
1914
Girls / boys
338 / 389

How old the living Malones are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 727 babies given the name since 1914, about 670 are alive — 92 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 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 Malone is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Malone peaked:

All the names of 2024

Malone elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
France boys Malone +2 spellings 9,050 79th
France girls Malone 290 1,284th
Switzerland boys Malone 129 472nd
Belgium boys Malone 119 712th
England and Wales boys Malone 54 2,160th

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.

Malone: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Malone 4 0.000% 1,376th
French boys Switzerland Malone 125 0.029% 139th

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Malone is most concentrated in Vaud, where 0.02% of children were given it – 33 of them.

Malone: rank by region

In 2024, Malone was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Malone 341 8

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

Malone against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.