Malorie
Feminine · “the unlucky one”
Malorie comes from an Old French nickname that nobody would choose today: malheure, the unlucky one. Norman surnames were handed out for misfortune as readily as for anything else, and this one stuck.
How old is the name Malorie?
Malorie first appears in US birth records in 1959 — 66 years ago. The typical Malorie alive today was born around 1998, making them about 27 years old. About 4,000 people named Malorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Malorie most popular?
Malorie peaked in 1987, reaching #802 nationally. Today it ranks #3028, 2,226 places below that high. See the whole 1987 chart.
Where it comes from
From malheure to Malorie
The story of Malorie
Mallory arrived in England with the Normans and became a well-established surname; its best-known bearer compiled the Arthurian stories into a single English book in the fifteenth century, from prison, which is where most of what English speakers know about Arthur comes from. The surname became an American girls' first name in the twentieth century, and the respellings — Mallory, Malorie, Mallorie, Malory — followed. The unflattering meaning has never slowed it down, mostly because almost nobody knows it.
Meaning
the unlucky one
Old French malheure or maloret means unfortunate or ill-omened, and the surname Mallory comes from it as a nickname — given, presumably, to somebody who had had a run of bad luck or who complained about it. The reading is documented and not disputed. Malorie is a modern respelling of the surname used as a given name.
How the name formed
- malheure
- Mallory
- Malorie
Related forms: Mallory · Malorie
Pronouncing Malorie
MAL-uh-ree
Three syllables, stress on the first. Said exactly as Mallory; the single l changes the spelling and nothing you can hear.
Nicknames for Malorie
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1959
- Most girls named
- 1987218 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #802reached in 1987
- Change vs 2024
- −10.0%54 in 2025, from 60
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Malorie in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mallory in English — spelling variant
- Malorie in French — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, North Carolina.
Malories among us
people named Malorie are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 girl in 29,764 born in 2025 was named Malorie
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Malorie
- #3028
- Malorie on the 2025 chart
- #839
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Malorie went to 54 girls in 2025, but Mallorie is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 121, which makes it the 839th most-given girls’ name of the year — 2,189 places above the chart.
- Mallorie67
- Malorie54
About 1 girl in 13,283 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 29,764 for Malorie itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Crista test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Malorie's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Crista climbed just as high around 1971, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Crista's path sketches the road Malorie is walking now.
Malorie sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Malorie is headed
Malorie looks set to keep climbing gently, with roughly 15% more babies a year by 2030 if the current curve holds.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Malorie beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Malorie in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US girls given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- A documented Norman surname with a genuinely unusual and honest meaning.
- Lorie and Mally are both natural short forms.
- Three syllables that every English speaker says correctly at first sight.
- Its meaning is 'unlucky', which is worth knowing before rather than after.
- Mallory is the standard spelling and this one will be corrected in writing.
- The short form Mal means bad in French, Spanish and Latin, which some families mind.
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Frequently asked
- How many Malories are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 4,000 people named Malorie are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Malorie?
- Malorie is one of 2 recorded spellings. Mallorie is the more common one — 67 births in 2025 against 54 for Malorie.
- How popular is the name Malorie in 2025?
- Malorie ranks #3028 among US girl names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Malorie?
- About 1 in every 29,764 US girls born in 2025 was named Malorie — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Malorie with classmates?
- Malorie will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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