# Mahlon (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mahlon/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 5,683 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,660 / 23 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Etymology

From Biblical Hebrew מַחְלוֹן (makhlón).

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | 16,694 |
| 2011 | 6 | 16,041 |
| 2019 | 5 | 17,077 |
| 2020 | 6 | 14,468 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 46 | 2,656 |
| 2012 | 38 | 3,039 |
| 2013 | 43 | 2,747 |
| 2014 | 37 | 3,071 |
| 2015 | 46 | 2,668 |
| 2016 | 44 | 2,750 |
| 2017 | 38 | 3,105 |
| 2018 | 54 | 2,434 |
| 2019 | 45 | 2,790 |
| 2020 | 37 | 3,109 |
| 2021 | 49 | 2,638 |
| 2022 | 52 | 2,608 |
| 2023 | 45 | 2,830 |
| 2024 | 37 | 3,254 |
| 2025 | 44 | 2,867 |

## In other languages

- Danish: Maklon
- Finnish: Mahlon
- German: Machlon
- Norwegian: Maklon
- Swedish: Mahelon

## People named Mahlon

- Mahlon Dickerson, American politician (1770-1853)
- Mahlon Hamilton, actor (1880-1960)
- Mahlon Loomis, American inventor (1826-1886)
- Mahlon Romeo, English footballer (born 1995)
- Mahlon Pitney, American politician and Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1858-1924)
- Mahlon DeLong, American neurologist

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.