Malee
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAH-lee
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Malee is a girls' name, meaning “jasmine”. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Malee mean?
Thai, from mali 'jasmine'
“jasmine”
A Thai girls' name; jasmine is the symbol of Mother's Day in Thailand.
Is Malee a girl's or a boy's name?
Malee is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malee in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Malee, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2002, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.
2025 had more girls named Malee than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Malee in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2013, the years shaded on the chart below.
Malee in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 6 | #13,793 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,512 |
| 2013 | 11 | #9,607 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 11 | #9,971 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,447 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,823 |
| 2003 | 9 | #10,420 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,189 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,116 |
| 1997 | 7 | #10,831 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,569 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 5 | #13,308 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,328 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,495 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,686 |
| 1987 | 5 | #11,320 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,130 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,304 |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,222 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 0 | – |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 5 | #9,748 |
| 1977 | 5 | #9,650 |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 0 | – |
| 1971 | 0 | – |
| 1970 | 0 | – |
| 1969 | 0 | – |
| 1968 | 0 | – |
| 1967 | 0 | – |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,563 |
Names like Malee
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kaylee, Chloe, Maylee, Brynlee, Brielle, Ellie, Zoe, Maisie, Macie, Marley, Kylie, Mackenzie
Names related to Malee
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Malee: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malee, updated 20 October 2026.