Mali

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mali: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mali: Recorded since 1947, with a gap of 17 years, it reached #82 in 2009, and it stood at #410 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
95times a registrar ranked it
79years from first to last
#82highest recorded position
19groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mali's record

Absent from every published list for 17 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#3795
1997	#983
1998	#1697
1999	#900
2000	#993
2001	#853
2002	#890
2003	#619
2004	#618
2005	#571
2006	#630
2007	#655
2008	#676
2009	#530
2010	#538
2011	#575
2012	#542
2013	#445
2014	#558
2015	#539
2016	#513
2017	#493
2018	#458
2019	#373
2020	#365
2021	#496
2022	#360
2023	#386
2024	#383

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 49 of the 79 years from 1947 to 2025.

In 2024: #242 among girls in Norway, #383 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1947–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1947
First recorded at #391 among girls in Norway in 1947 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1947–2025
Highest recorded position: #82 among girls in Norway, in 2009 (recorded 1947–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #410 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Mali appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 49 years beginning in 1947, and has registered 923 births with the name.

Mali across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mali's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#391 (1947)	#82 (2009)	#410 (2025)	49 of 79	923 (1947–2025)	84 (2009)
England and Wales · Girls	#3795 (1996)	#360 (2022)	#383 (2024)	29 of 29	1,918 (1996–2024)	121 (2020)
England and Wales · Boys	#1799 (2002)	#1799 (2002)	#2671 (2024)	17 of 23	87 (2002–2024)	9 (2009)

Mali by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mali in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	8	2 of 10	4
1960s	4	1 of 10	4
1970s	26	4 of 10	7
1980s	45	7 of 10	6
1990s	106	9 of 10	12
2000s	252	10 of 10	25
2010sbusiest	387	10 of 10	39
2020s	95	6 of 10	16

Across Norway · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 39 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2008 and 2009, when recorded births rose by 52, from 32 to 84.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mali appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1947 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #82 in Norway in 2009.

Mali's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#383	113	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#2671	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#386	107	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#3112	6	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#360	119	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#496	85	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#3451	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#365	121	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#2960	6	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#373	117	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#4702	3	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#458	94	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#3412	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#493	88	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#513	84	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#539	80	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#4747	3	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#558	76	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#445	94	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#542	78	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#4805	3	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#575	70	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#538	74	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3332	5	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#530	75	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2126	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#676	54	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2276	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#655	53	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#630	51	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#571	57	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#618	49	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3651	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#619	47	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2189	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#890	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#853	27	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#993	21	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#900	24	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#1697	10	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#983	21	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#3795	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#410	7	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#242	17	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#258	16	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#185	24	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#228	18	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#296	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#318	12	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#171	31	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#201	26	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#141	42	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#185	31	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#137	46	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#170	36	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#133	52	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#126	52	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#121	59	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#82	84	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#191	32	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#255	21	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#306	15	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#269	18	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#255	19	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#273	16	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#317	13	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#277	15	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#251	19	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#215	23	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#473	7	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#352	11	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#421	9	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#327	13	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#343	13	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#351	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#475	8	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#417	10	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#539	7	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#534	7	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#482	8	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#671	4	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#517	7	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#445	8	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#638	4	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#585	5	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#474	7	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#514	6	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#432	8	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#567	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#389	4	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#391	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1947 and 2025, ranked in 49 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #82, first reached in 2009.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 121 births, registered in England and Wales in 2020.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 17 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 49 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Malgorzata · #109, 60y
Malia · #331, 25y
Maliah · #1556, 15y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elvira · #81, 50y
Imelda · #80, 53y
Rosaleen · #80, 51y
Mariusz · #76, 48y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Anniken · #82, 72y
Guri · #82, 70y
Haakon · #82, 80y
Kjellaug · #82, 32y

Mali was ranked #82 in Norway · Girls in 2009. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mali and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mali without appearing here.

Mali moved ahead of

Teddy Compare
In 2001 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2002 that had become #890 and #4137.
Liv Compare
In 1999 they stood at #3795 and #3795 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2000 that had become #993 and #3912.
Amalie Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3795 and #2096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #983 and #3824.
Jeanette Compare
In 1996 they stood at #3795 and #1914 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #983 and #3824.

Moved ahead of Mali

Isak Compare
In 2018 they stood at #3412 and #4749 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #4702 and #2488.
Hunter Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2189 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #3651 and #1878.
Gunnar Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3332 and #4678 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2015 that had become #4747 and #3373.
Tor Compare
In 2021 they stood at #3451 and #3990 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4789 and #3449.

Moved the opposite way to Mali

Grete Compare
Between 1947 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Mali went from #391 to #185 while Grete went from #26 to #484.
Reidun Compare
Between 1947 and 2022 in Norway · Girls, Mali went from #391 to #185 while Reidun went from #17 to #425.
Lene Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Mali went from #391 to #228 while Lene went from #335 to #482.
Turid Compare
Between 1947 and 2021 in Norway · Girls, Mali went from #391 to #228 while Turid went from #15 to #456.

Moved the same way as Mali

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mali went from #3795 to #383 and Ada from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mali went from #3795 to #383 and Alma from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mali went from #3795 to #383 and Alyssa from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mali went from #3795 to #383 and Amalie from #2096 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1947 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #82 in Norway in 2009. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mali

Mali at a glance

What stands out in Mali's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mali across 3 official records

Mali by decade in Norway · Girls

Mali appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Mali

Mali and the names beside it

Mali moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mali

Moved the opposite way to Mali

Moved the same way as Mali

Mali at a glance

What stands out in Mali's record

Mali across 3 official records

Mali by decade in Norway · Girls

Mali appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Mali

Mali and the names beside it

Mali moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Mali

Moved the opposite way to Mali

Moved the same way as Mali