Malley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- MAL-ee
- Origin
- Irish
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Malley is a girls' name of Irish origin. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).
Where does Malley come from?
Irish: possibly from the Irish surname O'Malley, or short for Mallory
Is Malley a girl's or a boy's name?
Malley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 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, 8 girls in the US were named Malley, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2010, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1994.
2025 had more girls named Malley than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Malley in the US since 1880 were born between 2005 and 2014, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 84 girls in the US were given Malley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,914, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.
Malley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 6 | #13,459 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 9 | #10,685 |
| 2016 | 9 | #10,855 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,001 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,031 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 17 | #7,214 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,003 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,282 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,123 |
| 2004 | 8 | #11,617 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,472 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
Names like Malley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Miley, Murphy, Marley, Finley, Riley, Lainey, Presley, Kennedy, Kinsley, Kinley, Mckinley, Rowan
Other spellings of Malley
Names related to Malley
More Irish names
Oscar, Rory, Maeve, Finn, Aiden, Ryan, Nolan, Quinn, Orla, Cody, Erin, Ronan, Connor, Declan, Casey, Callan
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, “Malley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malley, updated 20 October 2026.