Maltie
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maltie has been given to 5 babies in the U.S. since 1927. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1927, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Maltie, 1927
1 in 464,000
Maltie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maltie?
Maltie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1927, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1927
- 1 in 464,000
- 5 of 2,319,281 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 238,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1927
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 321,522 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maltie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1927 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 321,522 children born in 1927 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maltie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malties were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maltie was born before 1927 — so the typical Maltie is around 98 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (5).
Is Maltie 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
- 0%
- Peak was 1927 (5)
- Years since peak
- 98
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Maltie
Maltie is not the most common spelling — Marie is, with 28.5% against Maltie'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.
Maltie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maltie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maltie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.