Mallory

At the 2020 census, 16,690 Americans bore the surname Mallory — 2,108th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 17,900.

By the numbers

People: 16,690
Rank: 2,108th
How common: 1 in 17,900
Per 100,000: 5.6

Where the name comes from

Origin Old French

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.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Mallory described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 60.2%
Black, not Hispanic 30.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.2%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.4%

Notable people called Mallory

George Mallory (1886–1924)English mountaineer
Molla Mallory (1884–1959)American-Norwegian tennis player
Stephen Mallory (1812–1873)American politician
James Patrick Mallory (born 1945)American archaeologist
Tamika Mallory (born 1980)American activist

People named Mallory with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Mallory

Also a first name

Mallory has been given to 60,144 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 1986. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.