Girl · Old French
Mallory
Say it: MAL-er-ee
Meaning
From a Norman surname derived from Old French malheure 'unlucky, unfortunate'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Became a girls' name in the US after the 1980s TV series Family Ties.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1980s
In the United States
- 56,673 babies given this name since 1914
- At its height in 1986, about 1 in 516 girls
- 515 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Malorie, Mallorie
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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