Maleia
- #2,859 for girls in 2025, 59 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 92 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,187since 1956
Maleia over time
Rank among girls' names. Maleia has never cracked the top 2,000 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 | #2,859 | 59 |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 |
| 2023 | #2,090 | 92 |
| 2022 | #2,756 | 62 |
| 2021 | #2,784 | 61 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 |
| 2019 | #3,272 | 48 |
| 2018 | #5,619 | 22 |
| 2017 | #4,576 | 30 |
| 2016 | #4,345 | 33 |
| 2015 | #4,584 | 30 |
| 2014 | #4,269 | 34 |
| 2013 | #3,645 | 42 |
| 2012 | #3,464 | 46 |
| 2011 | #3,843 | 39 |
| 2010 | #3,572 | 44 |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 |
| 2008 | #5,434 | 26 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #4,265 | 34 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #5,377 | 23 |
| 2003 | #4,109 | 32 |
| 2002 | #4,767 | 25 |
| 2001 | #4,834 | 24 |
| 2000 | #4,185 | 29 |
| 1999 | #5,424 | 19 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 |
| 1993 | — | |
| 1992 | #9,491 | 8 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
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| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 |
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| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 |
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| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
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| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
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| 1957 | #6,086 | 5 |
| 1956 | #3,910 | 10 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maleia! It came in at #3,910, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1957–1962, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Maleia is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#773 · 1 in 3,658
- Texas#2,038 · 1 in 16,054
- California#2,767 · 1 in 26,954
Best ever in a state: #635 in Alabama, 2012.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #773 | 5 | 1 in 3,658 |
| Texas | #2,038 | 10 | 1 in 16,054 |
| California | #2,767 | 6 | 1 in 26,954 |
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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 Maleia
- 657 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #2,859)
- 107 spots since 2020 (#2,966 → #2,859)
- 1,725 spots since 2015 (#4,584 → #2,859)
- Debuted 1956
- Peaked 2023 at #2,090 (92 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,441 girls born in 2023 were named Maleia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 27,242 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 31.3% of all girls named Maleia (372) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 15 | #3,910 (1956) | #4,998 |
| 1960s | 18 | #5,289 (1965) | #5,915 |
| 1970s | 18 | #7,296 (1976) | #7,820 |
| 1980s | 23 | #8,047 (1983) | #9,542 |
| 1990s | 73 | #5,424 (1999) | #9,414 |
| 2000s | 300 | #3,460 (2009) | #4,584 |
| 2010s | 368 | #3,272 (2019) | #4,119 |
| 2020s | 372 | #2,090 (2023) | #2,829 |
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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