Mali
- #3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- #8,910 for boys in 2025, 8 births
- Given to girls 94.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 2019 · 64 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,406since 1967
Mali over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Hover or use arrow keys to read values by year; click or press Enter to open that year.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 | #8,910 | 8 |
| 2024 | #3,575 | 43 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #2,852 | 59 | #8,255 | 9 |
| 2022 | #3,416 | 46 | #8,300 | 9 |
| 2021 | #3,297 | 48 | #7,089 | 11 |
| 2020 | #3,179 | 49 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,681 | 64 | #12,145 | 5 |
| 2018 | #4,357 | 32 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,479 | 44 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,996 | 37 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,705 | 41 | #12,086 | 5 |
| 2014 | #3,137 | 52 | #12,108 | 5 |
| 2013 | #3,573 | 43 | — | |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,350 | 48 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,689 | 42 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,189 | 52 | #12,491 | 5 |
| 2008 | #2,773 | 65 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,531 | 46 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,992 | 37 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,461 | 43 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #3,989 | 35 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | — | |
| 2002 | #4,280 | 29 | — | |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 | — | |
| 2000 | #4,291 | 28 | — | |
| 1999 | #4,313 | 26 | — | |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | — | |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | — | |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 | — | |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 | — | |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #8,435 | 5 |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | — | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | — | |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 | — | |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 | — | |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | — | |
| 1983 | #9,015 | 6 | — | |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,571 | 12 | — | |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | — | |
| 1979 | — | — | ||
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | #4,418 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | — | |
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| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 | — | |
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| 1967 | #5,457 | 7 | — | |
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First appearance
1967
The first year at least five girls were named Mali! It came in at #5,457, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1976, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mali is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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Top states · girls
- New York#2,075 · 1 in 15,666
Best ever in a state: #829 in Missouri, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 328 spots since 2024 (#3,575 → #3,903)
- 724 spots since 2020 (#3,179 → #3,903)
- 198 spots since 2015 (#3,705 → #3,903)
Rise & fade · girls
52 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2019 at #2,681 (64 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
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 26,224
- Highest: 1 in 26,224 girls born in 2019 were named Mali (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
- 32.1% of all girls named Mali (451) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1977
- Mostly boys until 1976, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 7 | #5,457 (1967) | #5,457 |
| 1970s | 32 | #6,340 (1977) | #7,934 |
| 1980s | 81 | #5,571 (1981) | #8,067 |
| 1990s | 139 | #4,313 (1999) | #7,040 |
| 2000s | 414 | #2,773 (2008) | #3,714 |
| 2010s | 451 | #2,681 (2019) | #3,533 |
| 2020s | 282 | #2,852 (2023) | #3,370 |
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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