Mallory Girl
How popular is Mallory?
#372 girl name in 2025
825 baby girls were named Mallory in the US in 2025, making it the 372nd most popular girl name.
Mallory popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #372 for girls (▲ 40 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 825 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-2% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #392 in 2015, #565 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1986 (3,325 girls) |
| Highest rank | #83 in 1986 |
| First recorded | 1938 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.6% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Mallory counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Mallory family of names ranked #335 for girls in 2025 (#361 the year before), with 977 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Mallory | 825 | 84% |
| Mallorie | 67 | 7% |
| Malorie | 54 | 6% |
| Malory | 13 | 1% |
| Mallori | 11 | 1% |
| Malori | 7 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Mallory is most popular
Babies named Mallory per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- West Virginia: 1.6 per 1,000 (43 girls)
- Wyoming: 1.4 per 1,000 (6 girls)
- Maine: 1.4 per 1,000 (21 girls)
- Kentucky: 1.3 per 1,000 (112 girls)
- South Carolina: 1.0 per 1,000 (92 girls)
Mallory by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 10 | #4,248 |
| 1940s | 115 | #1,602 |
| 1950s | 256 | #1,870 |
| 1960s | 220 | #2,190 |
| 1970s | 249 | #2,375 |
| 1980s | 15,084 | #83 |
| 1990s | 16,471 | #162 |
| 2000s | 14,345 | #187 |
| 2010s | 8,325 | #281 |
| 2020s | 3,969 | #372 |
Girl names about as popular as Mallory
Questions
- Is Mallory a boy or girl name?
- Mallory is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Mallory were girls.
- How popular is the name Mallory?
- 825 baby girls were named Mallory in the US in 2025, making it the 372nd most popular girl name.
- When was Mallory most popular?
- Mallory peaked in 1986, when 3,325 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #83 in 1986.
- How many people are named Mallory?
- 60,144 babies have been named Mallory in the US since 1880. We estimate about 58,840 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 28.
- Where is Mallory most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Mallory was most common in West Virginia, at 1.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.