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Malachi vs Mallori

American parents have registered 66,048 Malachis since 1880, against 1,577 Malloris. Malachi is still ahead, with 2,701 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Malachi against Mallori, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Malachi Mallori

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 137 years in which either name was published, Malachi for 135 years and Mallori for 2 years. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Malachi Mallori
Total US births 66,0481,577
Most in one year 2,79091
Babies in 2025 2,70111
Estimated living today 64,0001,500
Median age today 1328
Peak year 20061986
Best rank 150th boys1,405th girls
Rank in 2025 134th8,860th
First recorded 18801983
Girls / boys 290 / 65,7581,577 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Malloris alive today are over 28; half the Malachis are over 13. That is 15 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Malachi and Mallori.