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Malone

Malone was most popular in 2024, when 21 boys got the name. In 2025 it ranked number 5,138 for boys. It is also a girl's name, most popular for girls in 2018.

727babies since 1880
2024most popular year
#3,217best rank, 1950
#5,138rank in 2025

Babies named Malone each year in the US

Girls Boys

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See the numbers by decade
DecadeGirlsBoys
1910s012
1920s028
1930s05
1940s00
1950s012
1960s00
1970s00
1980s00
1990s2147
2000s5684
2010s172107
2020s8994

Malone in other countries

Out of every 10,000 boys born each year, how many were named Malone.

US England and Wales France

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CountryTop yearAt peak2025 rank
US 2024 1 in 82,042 #5,138
England and Wales 2023 1 in 27,663 #3,112
France 2020 1 in 417 #198

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Where the counts come from: the US from Social Security card records from 1880 (names given to at least 5 babies in a year; years before about 1937 count fewer people, because the cards started then), and before 1880 from Douglas Galbi's tables of a census sample. England and Wales from the Office for National Statistics from 1996, and before that from Stephen Bush's study of local birth records, a sample of about 120,000 births a year (CC BY 4.0). Scotland from National Records of Scotland. Northern Ireland from NISRA. France from INSEE, first names and last names. Italy from ISTAT (CC BY 4.0), the top 50 names a year. Berlin from the city's open data (CC BY 3.0 DE), counting only the first of a child's names. UK figures are Crown copyright, used under the Open Government Licence. US last names from the 2020 census, and before 1850 from the 1790 census. Irish last names from Robert Matheson's report on the births of 1890. Italian last names from the City of Florence (CC BY 4.0). Norwegian last names from Statistics Norway (CC BY 4.0).

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