Maliah
#1,684 for girls in 2025, 122 births
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 347 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,394since 1991
Maliah over time
Rank among girls' names. Maliah has never cracked the top 700 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 | #1,684 | 122 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 |
| 2023 | #1,186 | 202 |
| 2022 | #1,159 | 209 |
| 2021 | #1,162 | 210 |
| 2020 | #1,093 | 223 |
| 2019 | #933 | 283 |
| 2018 | #999 | 261 |
| 2017 | #928 | 285 |
| 2016 | #891 | 315 |
| 2015 | #923 | 297 |
| 2014 | #941 | 287 |
| 2013 | #784 | 347 |
| 2012 | #924 | 278 |
| 2011 | #902 | 289 |
| 2010 | #928 | 279 |
| 2009 | #795 | 356 |
| 2008 | #1,405 | 169 |
| 2007 | #1,579 | 143 |
| 2006 | #1,978 | 101 |
| 2005 | #2,225 | 82 |
| 2004 | #2,345 | 73 |
| 2003 | #2,187 | 79 |
| 2002 | #2,004 | 87 |
| 2001 | #2,571 | 59 |
| 2000 | #2,480 | 61 |
| 1999 | #3,188 | 40 |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 |
| 1997 | #3,365 | 34 |
| 1996 | #5,531 | 17 |
| 1995 | #7,041 | 12 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maliah! It came in at #10,271, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1993, when fewer than 11 girls a year got the name.
Where Maliah is popular in 2009
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#425 · 1 in 1,681
- Kansas#454 · 1 in 1,966
- Ohio#492 · 1 in 2,593
- Maryland#514 · 1 in 2,472
- Massachusetts#533 · 1 in 2,916
Best ever in a state: #304 in Connecticut, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #425 | 7 | 1 in 1,681 |
| Kansas | #454 | 7 | 1 in 1,966 |
| Ohio | #492 | 21 | 1 in 2,593 |
| Maryland | #514 | 10 | 1 in 2,472 |
| Massachusetts | #533 | 9 | 1 in 2,916 |
| Kentucky | #538 | 7 | 1 in 2,755 |
| Arkansas | #543 | 5 | 1 in 2,360 |
| Florida | #574 | 27 | 1 in 3,049 |
| Georgia | #615 | 17 | 1 in 2,984 |
| Tennessee | #659 | 9 | 1 in 3,391 |
| Illinois | #663 | 18 | 1 in 3,513 |
| North Carolina | #682 | 13 | 1 in 3,571 |
| Louisiana | #712 | 6 | 1 in 3,442 |
| California | #727 | 53 | 1 in 4,119 |
| Missouri | #737 | 7 | 1 in 4,001 |
| Arizona | #753 | 9 | 1 in 3,725 |
| New Jersey | #768 | 9 | 1 in 4,258 |
| Utah | #776 | 5 | 1 in 3,809 |
| Michigan | #817 | 9 | 1 in 4,749 |
| Pennsylvania | #907 | 9 | 1 in 6,070 |
| Indiana | #942 | 6 | 1 in 5,283 |
| Washington | #947 | 6 | 1 in 5,227 |
| New York | #1,114 | 13 | 1 in 7,290 |
| Texas | #1,342 | 18 | 1 in 9,259 |
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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 Maliah
- 20 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,684)
- 591 spots since 2020 (#1,093 → #1,684)
- 761 spots since 2015 (#923 → #1,684)
- Biggest jump: 610 spots in 2009 (#1,405 → #795)
- Biggest drop: 160 spots in 2020 (#933 → #1,093)
- Debuted 1991
- Peaked 2013 at #784 (347 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 11 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2009–2019
- Highest: 1 in 5,057 girls born in 2013 were named Maliah (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 13,174 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 54.2% of all girls named Maliah (2,921) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 174 | #3,188 (1999) | #6,402 |
| 2000s | 1,210 | #795 (2009) | #1,957 |
| 2010s | 2,921 | #784 (2013) | #915 |
| 2020s | 1,089 | #1,093 (2020) | #1,325 |
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.
Maliah in 2009
Top girls' names in 2009
More about 2009
girls
1,837,114 girls got a published name in 2009; 1 in 5,160 of them was named Maliah, which outranked 96.1% of the 20,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.