Maliyah

Where Maliyah comes from

Probably a fanciful spelling of Malia, from Hawaiian Malia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Maliyah
  • Hawaiian
Maliyah through the years
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #4,687 among girls with 21 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #295
    1,117 babies named Maliyah, the most in any year.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #588.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

No widely recognized namesakes for Maliyah in Wikidata.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.