Meaning and history
Derived from an English surname ultimately from Old French maleüré meaning “unfortunate,” Mallory first became common in the 1980s after the American sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) featured a character with this name.
20062006: 1,470 births, rank #234
2007: 1,406 births, rank #247
2008: 1,354 births, rank #253
2009: 1,211 births, rank #269
2010: 1,173 births, rank #281
20112011: 1,098 births, rank #290
2012: 960 births, rank #326
2013: 992 births, rank #328
2014: 851 births, rank #384
2015: 840 births, rank #392
20162016: 738 births, rank #437
2017: 561 births, rank #552
2018: 564 births, rank #551
2019: 548 births, rank #555
2020: 521 births, rank #565
20212021: 556 births, rank #549
2022: 583 births, rank #533
2023: 716 births, rank #432
2024: 768 births, rank #412
20252025: 825 births, rank #372
Mallory rose from #412 to #372 for girls between 2024 and 2025. Its highest annual birth count came in 1986, with 3,325 births.