Mali
Mali is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 43 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 430.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200865 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1967
- 1,449people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,368 girls have been named Mali in the United States since 1967, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 65 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2010, and the 2010s alone account for 33%.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 81 boys have also been given it, 5.6% of the total.
By decade
In 2008, its biggest year
Mali was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Mali
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nataliapeak 2006
- Noelanipeak 2006
- Illianapeak 2011
- Kaliapeak 2008
- Tahliapeak 2009
- Kaleapeak 2004
- Mayapeak 2006
- Saraipeak 2007
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.