Mally
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MAL-ee
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #5,065 for boys
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Mally is a boys' name of English origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,065th for boys in the UK (3 babies) and 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Mally mean?
English: pet form of Mary, Mallory and similar names
Mally was an old variant of Molly, itself a pet form of Mary.
Is Mally a girl's or a boy's name?
Mally is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 3 boys in the UK and 12 girls in the US.
How popular is Mally in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,065th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 3 about 1 in 100,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 3 boys in the UK were named Mally, making it the 5,065th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,803rd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 5 boys.
Among boys in 2025, it was 4,974th in England and Wales.
Mally in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 3 | #5,065 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 3 | #5,017 |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 3 | #4,995 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 3 | #4,829 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 4 | #4,147 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 3 | #4,865 |
| 2009 | 5 | #3,395 |
How popular is Mally in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Mally, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2014, with 15 girls. It first appears in the records in 1986.
2025 had more girls named Mally than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Mally in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 84 girls in the US were given Mally or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,914, up from #8,360 for this spelling alone.
Mally in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 5 | #15,188 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,377 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,633 |
| 2013 | 9 | #10,995 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 6 | #14,816 |
| 2010 | 11 | #9,786 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,003 |
| 2004 | 9 | #10,684 |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,102 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,378 |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 5 | #13,719 |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,483 |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 5 | #10,907 |
Names like Mally
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marley, Sonny, Brody, Oakley, Teddy, Henry, Stanley, Cody, Riley, Bobby, Mason, Rory
Other spellings of Mally
Names related to Mally
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter, Harrison
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Mally: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mally, updated 20 October 2026.