Malory
#8,161 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malory has been given to 1,399 babies in the U.S. since 1983. In 2025 it ranked #8,161 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 85 recorded.
Babies named Malory, 2025
1 in 255,000
Malory over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Malory?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 124,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #8,161
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malory sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malory. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malorys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malory was born before 1997 — so the typical Malory is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 31.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.5%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,399
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 31.5% of all recorded uses (441).
Is Malory 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
- −707
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +1,145
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,442
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.30×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 15.3%
- Peak was 1987 (85)
- Years since peak
- 38
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.0% average annual change
Spellings of Malory
Malory is not the most common spelling — Mary is, with 94.6% against Malory's 0.03%.
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 Malory is used
Across 1910–2025, Malory was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 354,159 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Malory has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Malory around the world
Where Malory 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.
- France1965–2025#3,876in 2025
- Canada1991–2024#2,463in 2024
- South Australia1995–2003#739in 2003
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.
Malory by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malory
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malory
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.