Malayah
#1,082 for girls in 2025, 223 births
- Peak · girls
- 2022 · 333 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,367since 1994
Malayah over time
Rank among girls' names. Malayah has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,082 | 223 |
| 2024 | #1,066 | 233 |
| 2023 | #967 | 267 |
| 2022 | #840 | 333 |
| 2021 | #884 | 307 |
| 2020 | #942 | 272 |
| 2019 | #909 | 291 |
| 2018 | #1,096 | 228 |
| 2017 | #1,046 | 246 |
| 2016 | #1,078 | 241 |
| 2015 | #1,199 | 208 |
| 2014 | #1,183 | 207 |
| 2013 | #1,144 | 210 |
| 2012 | #1,351 | 173 |
| 2011 | #1,324 | 176 |
| 2010 | #1,603 | 135 |
| 2009 | #1,432 | 163 |
| 2008 | #1,966 | 107 |
| 2007 | #2,710 | 67 |
| 2006 | #2,815 | 62 |
| 2005 | #3,052 | 52 |
| 2004 | #3,444 | 43 |
| 2003 | #4,307 | 30 |
| 2002 | #4,179 | 30 |
| 2001 | #6,322 | 17 |
| 2000 | #6,208 | 17 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 |
| 1998 | #7,532 | 12 |
| 1997 | #12,070 | 6 |
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| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malayah! It came in at #13,430, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1996, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malayah is popular in 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#378 · 1 in 1,365
- South Carolina#427 · 1 in 1,776
- Georgia#594 · 1 in 2,772
- Virginia#603 · 1 in 3,003
- Florida#655 · 1 in 3,582
Best ever in a state: #330 in New Mexico, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #378 | 8 | 1 in 1,365 |
| South Carolina | #427 | 10 | 1 in 1,776 |
| Georgia | #594 | 17 | 1 in 2,772 |
| Virginia | #603 | 12 | 1 in 3,003 |
| Florida | #655 | 24 | 1 in 3,582 |
| Michigan | #663 | 12 | 1 in 3,439 |
| Pennsylvania | #671 | 15 | 1 in 3,409 |
| Maryland | #704 | 7 | 1 in 3,325 |
| Ohio | #724 | 13 | 1 in 3,983 |
| Tennessee | #757 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| Alabama | #796 | 5 | 1 in 3,835 |
| Wisconsin | #826 | 5 | 1 in 4,516 |
| Louisiana | #829 | 5 | 1 in 3,977 |
| Minnesota | #860 | 5 | 1 in 4,784 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Illinois | #962 | 10 | 1 in 5,554 |
| California | #1,081 | 28 | 1 in 6,991 |
| Texas | #1,385 | 17 | 1 in 9,404 |
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See more about Malayah
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,066 → #1,082)
- 140 spots since 2020 (#942 → #1,082)
- 117 spots since 2015 (#1,199 → #1,082)
- Biggest jump: 187 spots in 2019 (#1,096 → #909)
- Biggest drop: 127 spots in 2023 (#840 → #967)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2022 at #840 (333 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2019–2023
- Highest: 1 in 4,925 girls born in 2022 were named Malayah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,207 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 48.4% of all girls named Malayah (2,115) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 29 | #7,532 (1998) | #11,430 |
| 2000s | 588 | #1,432 (2009) | #3,644 |
| 2010s | 2,115 | #909 (2019) | #1,193 |
| 2020s | 1,635 | #840 (2022) | #964 |
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.
Malayah in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 7,018 of them was named Malayah, which outranked 94.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,042Mariyah247
- #1,042Palmer247
- #1,042Saniyah247
- #1,046Malayah246
- #1,046Dani246
- #1,046Kamiyah246
- #1,046Mercedes246
- #1,051Anabella245
- #1,051Mattie245
- #1,051Sally245
Tied with 4 names at #1,046; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.