Malee
- #11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 5 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 333since 1966
Malee over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Malee has never cracked the top 6,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 |
| 2014 | #9,517 | 11 |
| 2013 | #9,612 | 11 |
| 2012 | #8,632 | 13 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 |
| 2007 | #9,539 | 12 |
| 2006 | — | |
| 2005 | #9,452 | 11 |
| 2004 | #7,828 | 14 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 |
| 2001 | #8,196 | 12 |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 |
| 1998 | #14,122 | 5 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #7,574 | 11 |
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| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #12,362 | 5 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 |
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| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 |
| 1977 | #9,652 | 5 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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First appearance
1966
The first year at least five girls were named Malee! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1981, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malee is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Malee in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 1,545 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #11,932)
- 1,682 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #11,932)
- 1,784 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #11,932)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1966 at #6,564 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1967, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 119,792
- Highest: 1 in 119,792 girls born in 2002 were named Malee (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #6,564 in 1966, was only 1 in 338,435 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 28.8% of all girls named Malee (96) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,564 |
| 1970s | 10 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,701 |
| 1980s | 46 | #7,134 (1986) | #9,474 |
| 1990s | 59 | #7,574 (1996) | #10,826 |
| 2000s | 96 | #7,045 (2002) | #10,113 |
| 2010s | 89 | #8,632 (2012) | #11,613 |
| 2020s | 28 | #10,250 (2020) | #12,281 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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