girls:
3.4k births since 1880
#2990 (48th percentile)
boys:
407 births since 1892
#4179 (9th percentile)
overall:
3.8k births since 1880
#4478 (42nd percentile)
The name Mallie is the #4,478 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,762 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 42.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,990 (47.7% percentile) for all time with 3,355 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,179 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 407 births since 1892.
Mallie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1892 for boys). Birth data for Mallie is available in 136 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (135 years for girls and 49 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mallie has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mallie were girls.
For girls, Mallie reached its peak popularity in 1897, achieving the 12.0% percentile (ranked #287) with 177 births per million. The name was most common in 1897, with 177 births per million (ranked 12.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mallie ranks #903 for girls (4.7% percentile) with 28 births per million, which is 15.8% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mallie reached its peak popularity in 1938, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #513) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 50 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1970.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mallie".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mallie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 79.5% confident that Mallie is pronounced as MA-lee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAW-lee, at 20.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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