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Malee

#12,689 in 2025Girls' name

Flower or jasmine

Malee has been given to 333 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #12,689 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Malee, 2025

1 in 474,000

Malee over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malee: meaning, origin, and history

Flower or jasmine

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malee means

Malee means “flower or jasmine”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Malee is used in Thai.

Another recorded pronunciation is /maː˧.ˈliː˧/ and /ma˦˥.ˈliʔ˦˥/ for Malee.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 333 girls were recorded with the name Malee between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2002; its best national rank was #7,200 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #10,802 in 2020 to #12,689 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #10,599 in 2015 to #12,689 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Malee?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,689
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malee sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malees were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malee was born before 2004 — so the typical Malee is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
28.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
62.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
333
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Choose a decade

2000s — 28.8% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Malee rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+1,914
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,887
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,090
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
46.7%
Peak was 2002 (15)
Years since peak
23
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,200
1966

Spellings of Malee

Malee is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 22.8% against Malee's 0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Malee around the world

Where Malee ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    2008–2023
    #4,482
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1992–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Malee by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,689
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,887
Best rank ever
#7,200
1966
Peak year
2002
15 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
333
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Malee

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Malee

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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