Malo

#7,489 in 2025Boys' name

Bright pledge

Malo has been given to 75 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #7,489 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Malo, 2025

1 in 301,000

Malo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malo: meaning, origin, and history

Bright pledge

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malo means

Malo means “bright pledge”.

Origin, language, and formation

Malo is used in Albanian.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 75 boys were recorded with the name Malo between 1972 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 11 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,516 in 1972.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Malo?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 301,000; 11 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 155,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #7,489; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 208,901 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Malo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malo was born before 2001 — so the typical Malo is around 24 today.

Median birth year: 2001; About 24 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 46.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 53.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 75; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 46.7% of all recorded uses (35).

Is Malo 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 100.0%; Peak was 2025 (11)
Years since peak: Peaking now; At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 28.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,516; 1972

Spellings of Malo

Malo is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 41.9% against Malo's <0.01%.

Mark41.9%1,362,176
Mason10.5%342,583
Dale8.6%278,156
Max5.2%167,458
Mario4.7%151,310
Marc4.3%140,604
Mateo3.9%126,693
Marco2.4%76,578

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.

Where Malo is used

Across 1910–2025, Malo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Malo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malo around the world

Where Malo 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.

England & Wales
2001–2024
#3,689
in 2024
France
1901–2025
#22
in 2025
Canada
2001–2024
#2,550
in 2024
South Australia
2000–2000
#556
in 2000

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Malo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #7,489
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #3,516; 1972
Peak year: 2025; 11 that year
First recorded: 1972
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 75
Count in 2025: 11

Names similar to Malo

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

Mali Nalo Ralo Kalo Maleko Malhar Malloy Malak Alo Mal Malakia Malosi Malyk Malijah Valo Malic Maleo Malaky Malyki Galo Maliik Malacai Maliq Malin

Sibling names for Malo

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

For a sister

Annabell Abagail Leonor Karleigh Rhianna Adelle Keren Kendyl

For a brother

Aaden Evans Hamilton Caesar Brennen Tobin Jerimiah Jorden

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