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Maloree

Gender
Girl
Say it
MAL-a-ree
Origin
French

Maloree is a girls' name of French origin, meaning “unlucky”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Maloree mean?

French: spelling of Mallory; English surname from a Norman nickname

“unlucky”

From an Old French nickname meaning unlucky; borne as a surname by the Everest climber George Mallory.

Meaning borrowed from Mallory. More on Wiktionary.

Is Maloree a girl's or a boy's name?

Maloree is a girls' name.

How popular is Maloree in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2001, with 18 girls. It first appears in the records in 1984.

Half of all the girls named Maloree in the US since 1880 were born between 1993 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.

1984Busiest: 18 in 20012024
Maloree in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20245#15,288
20230–
20220–
20210–
20207#12,137
20190–
20180–
20170–
20169#10,855
20158#11,830
20140–
201312#9,031
201210#10,424
20117#13,339
201010#10,446
20098#12,423
200811#10,080
200710#10,814
20068#12,415
20057#13,003
200411#9,259
20038#11,319
200211#8,831
200118#6,062
20009#9,867
199910#8,798
199811#8,011
19975#13,719
19969#8,807
199512#7,036
19949#8,798
19938#9,552
19929#8,726
199111#7,423
19907#10,187
19897#9,675
19888#8,386
19877#8,773
19867#8,518
19856#9,304
19845#10,417

Names like Maloree

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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, “Maloree: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maloree, updated 20 October 2026.