Malia
#349 for girls in 2025, 872 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 1,700 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 31,606since 1919
Malia over time
Rank among girls' names. Malia has never cracked the top 100 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 | #349 | 872 |
| 2024 | #328 | 948 |
| 2023 | #273 | 1,146 |
| 2022 | #265 | 1,191 |
| 2021 | #256 | 1,204 |
| 2020 | #259 | 1,172 |
| 2019 | #262 | 1,264 |
| 2018 | #255 | 1,280 |
| 2017 | #215 | 1,429 |
| 2016 | #258 | 1,237 |
| 2015 | #315 | 1,031 |
| 2014 | #348 | 955 |
| 2013 | #336 | 959 |
| 2012 | #353 | 899 |
| 2011 | #313 | 1,011 |
| 2010 | #301 | 1,075 |
| 2009 | #192 | 1,700 |
| 2008 | #343 | 968 |
| 2007 | #399 | 817 |
| 2006 | #406 | 784 |
| 2005 | #418 | 741 |
| 2004 | #449 | 681 |
| 2003 | #425 | 706 |
| 2002 | #428 | 682 |
| 2001 | #476 | 585 |
| 2000 | #498 | 541 |
| 1999 | #584 | 423 |
| 1998 | #653 | 353 |
| 1997 | #700 | 308 |
| 1996 | #779 | 269 |
| 1995 | #857 | 227 |
| 1994 | #975 | 190 |
| 1993 | #1,034 | 178 |
| 1992 | #999 | 189 |
| 1991 | #1,016 | 181 |
| 1990 | #1,100 | 159 |
| 1989 | #1,037 | 165 |
| 1988 | #1,099 | 142 |
| 1987 | #1,106 | 136 |
| 1986 | #1,254 | 108 |
| 1985 | #1,109 | 130 |
| 1984 | #988 | 146 |
| 1983 | #968 | 151 |
| 1982 | #919 | 164 |
| 1981 | #971 | 151 |
| 1980 | #990 | 149 |
| 1979 | #1,030 | 136 |
| 1978 | #976 | 142 |
| 1977 | #933 | 149 |
| 1976 | #1,117 | 107 |
| 1975 | #1,219 | 94 |
| 1974 | #1,157 | 99 |
| 1973 | #1,312 | 77 |
| 1972 | #1,181 | 91 |
| 1971 | #1,473 | 69 |
| 1970 | #1,544 | 63 |
| 1969 | #1,465 | 64 |
| 1968 | #1,776 | 44 |
| 1967 | #1,495 | 56 |
| 1966 | #1,766 | 41 |
| 1965 | #1,463 | 57 |
| 1964 | #1,947 | 37 |
| 1963 | #1,754 | 43 |
| 1962 | #1,651 | 47 |
| 1961 | #2,250 | 28 |
| 1960 | #2,013 | 32 |
| 1959 | #2,458 | 22 |
| 1958 | #1,908 | 33 |
| 1957 | #1,376 | 59 |
| 1956 | #1,260 | 68 |
| 1955 | #1,074 | 88 |
| 1954 | #1,444 | 48 |
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| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 |
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| 1919 | #4,814 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malia! It came in at #4,814, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malia is popular in 1989
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Hawaii#31 · 1 in 140
- Washington#523 · 1 in 3,685
- California#674 · 1 in 5,304
- Virginia#766 · 1 in 7,421
- North Carolina#832 · 1 in 8,137
Best ever in a state: #6 in Hawaii, 2002.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Hawaii | #31 | 36 | 1 in 140 |
| Washington | #523 | 8 | 1 in 3,685 |
| California | #674 | 46 | 1 in 5,304 |
| Virginia | #766 | 5 | 1 in 7,421 |
| North Carolina | #832 | 5 | 1 in 8,137 |
| Ohio | #977 | 6 | 1 in 11,641 |
| New York | #1,681 | 6 | 1 in 19,798 |
| Texas | #2,022 | 5 | 1 in 26,677 |
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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 Malia
- 21 spots since 2024 (#328 → #349)
- 90 spots since 2020 (#259 → #349)
- 34 spots since 2015 (#315 → #349)
- Biggest jump: 184 spots in 1977 (#1,117 → #933)
- Biggest drop: 121 spots in 1985 (#988 → #1,109)
- Debuted 1919
- Peaked 2009 at #192 (1,700 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1994–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,081 girls born in 2009 were named Malia (0.09%)
- Latest: 1 in 1,843 girls born in 2025 (0.05%)
- 35.2% of all girls named Malia (11,140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 5 | #4,814 (1919) | #4,814 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 5 | #4,960 (1946) | #4,960 |
| 1950s | 323 | #1,074 (1955) | #2,155 |
| 1960s | 449 | #1,463 (1965) | #1,758 |
| 1970s | 1,027 | #933 (1977) | #1,194 |
| 1980s | 1,442 | #919 (1982) | #1,044 |
| 1990s | 2,477 | #584 (1999) | #870 |
| 2000s | 8,205 | #192 (2009) | #403 |
| 2010s | 11,140 | #215 (2017) | #296 |
| 2020s | 6,533 | #256 (2021) | #288 |
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.
Malia in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 11,173 of them was named Malia, which outranked 92.9% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,032Heaven166
- #1,032Jada166
- #1,032Karyn166
- #1,037Malia165
- #1,037Ada165
- #1,037Ella165
- #1,037Elyssa165
- #1,042Berenice164
- #1,042Brooklyn164
- #1,042Danae164
Tied with 4 names at #1,037; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.