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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#547 · 1 in 2,184
- Georgia#619 · 1 in 2,945
- Oklahoma#625 · 1 in 2,624
- Maryland#646 · 1 in 2,909
- South Carolina#651 · 1 in 2,959
Best ever in a state: #304 in Connecticut, 2016.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #547 | 5 | 1 in 2,184 |
| Georgia | #619 | 16 | 1 in 2,945 |
| Oklahoma | #625 | 6 | 1 in 2,624 |
| Maryland | #646 | 8 | 1 in 2,909 |
| South Carolina | #651 | 6 | 1 in 2,959 |
| Pennsylvania | #700 | 14 | 1 in 3,653 |
| Florida | #728 | 21 | 1 in 4,093 |
| Illinois | #735 | 14 | 1 in 3,967 |
| Massachusetts | #747 | 6 | 1 in 4,200 |
| New Jersey | #750 | 9 | 1 in 3,996 |
| Tennessee | #757 | 8 | 1 in 3,825 |
| California | #818 | 41 | 1 in 4,774 |
| Virginia | #842 | 8 | 1 in 4,504 |
| Arizona | #857 | 7 | 1 in 4,296 |
| Ohio | #898 | 10 | 1 in 5,178 |
| North Carolina | #917 | 9 | 1 in 5,043 |
| Michigan | #1,012 | 7 | 1 in 5,895 |
| Indiana | #1,042 | 5 | 1 in 6,020 |
| New York | #1,138 | 13 | 1 in 6,769 |
| Texas | #1,290 | 19 | 1 in 8,414 |
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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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 6,058 of them was named Maliah, which outranked 95.0% 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).
- #925Bexley286
- #925Kiana286
- #925Nataly286
- #928Maliah285
- #928Breanna285
- #928Joslyn285
- #931Estrella284
- #932Jayden283
- #932Kaylin283
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.