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Baby name
Mallory
Girl
Origin of the name
Mallory is an English name of Anglo-Norman origin, from the Old French maloré, “unlucky.”
Short-lived name
59,044births since 1880
1980sgeneration
No. 83rank at its peak, in 1986
Where babies named Mallory are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Mallory is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Mallory is most common in Alabama (2 times), Louisiana (1.9) and Iowa (1.9), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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