Maleah
- #1,211 for girls in 2025, 187 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 508 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 9,426since 1956
Maleah over time
Rank among girls' names. Maleah has never cracked the top 500 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 | #1,211 | 187 |
| 2024 | #1,207 | 196 |
| 2023 | #1,098 | 223 |
| 2022 | #992 | 266 |
| 2021 | #879 | 310 |
| 2020 | #871 | 309 |
| 2019 | #684 | 424 |
| 2018 | #796 | 342 |
| 2017 | #760 | 366 |
| 2016 | #757 | 377 |
| 2015 | #832 | 337 |
| 2014 | #683 | 415 |
| 2013 | #608 | 461 |
| 2012 | #637 | 449 |
| 2011 | #614 | 471 |
| 2010 | #622 | 473 |
| 2009 | #594 | 508 |
| 2008 | #839 | 337 |
| 2007 | #772 | 375 |
| 2006 | #838 | 320 |
| 2005 | #928 | 268 |
| 2004 | #908 | 266 |
| 2003 | #1,043 | 219 |
| 2002 | #882 | 256 |
| 2001 | #1,001 | 214 |
| 2000 | #1,225 | 162 |
| 1999 | #1,548 | 109 |
| 1998 | #1,690 | 94 |
| 1997 | #2,023 | 70 |
| 1996 | #2,177 | 62 |
| 1995 | #2,552 | 49 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,533 | 49 |
| 1992 | #2,974 | 39 |
| 1991 | #3,540 | 30 |
| 1990 | #4,868 | 19 |
| 1989 | #4,020 | 24 |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 |
| 1987 | #3,524 | 25 |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 |
| 1983 | #3,431 | 23 |
| 1982 | #3,530 | 23 |
| 1981 | #4,746 | 15 |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 |
| 1979 | #3,903 | 19 |
| 1978 | #4,459 | 15 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 |
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| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #4,779 | 9 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 |
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| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
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| 1957 | #4,202 | 9 |
| 1956 | #5,325 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maleah! It came in at #5,325, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1958–1962, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Maleah is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arkansas#555 · 1 in 2,119
- Alabama#633 · 1 in 2,617
- Pennsylvania#647 · 1 in 3,113
- Kentucky#744 · 1 in 3,450
- Georgia#748 · 1 in 3,478
Best ever in a state: #174 in North Dakota, 2007.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Arkansas | #555 | 5 | 1 in 2,119 |
| Alabama | #633 | 7 | 1 in 2,617 |
| Pennsylvania | #647 | 15 | 1 in 3,113 |
| Kentucky | #744 | 5 | 1 in 3,450 |
| Georgia | #748 | 13 | 1 in 3,478 |
| Florida | #864 | 18 | 1 in 4,820 |
| North Carolina | #905 | 10 | 1 in 4,648 |
| Michigan | #965 | 7 | 1 in 5,104 |
| Texas | #1,062 | 26 | 1 in 6,175 |
| Ohio | #1,134 | 7 | 1 in 6,753 |
| New York | #1,654 | 7 | 1 in 11,190 |
| California | #1,830 | 11 | 1 in 14,702 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maleah
- 340 spots since 2020 (#871 → #1,211)
- Biggest jump: 245 spots in 2009
- Biggest drop: 187 spots in 2020
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2009 at #594 (508 births)
- Births halved by 2023, 14 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 20 yrs · run 2004–2022
- Highest: 1 in 3,616 girls born in 2009 were named Maleah (0.03%)
- Latest: 1 in 8,595 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.7% of all girls named Maleah (4,115) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 15 | #4,202 (1957) | #4,764 |
| 1960s | 29 | #4,539 (1963) | #5,475 |
| 1970s | 83 | #3,903 (1979) | #6,138 |
| 1980s | 207 | #3,225 (1988) | #4,073 |
| 1990s | 561 | #1,548 (1999) | #2,684 |
| 2000s | 2,925 | #594 (2009) | #903 |
| 2010s | 4,115 | #608 (2013) | #699 |
| 2020s | 1,491 | #871 (2020) | #1,043 |
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.
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