Girls' name · since 2014
Maelah
Maelah has 22 recorded births since 2014 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2025 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #44,854 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,979 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maelah currently ranks #9979 among girls' names in America, with 22 babies recorded since 2014.
Social Security Administration records show Maelah recorded 22 times among girls since 2014, holding rank #9979 nationally today, ahead of 42% of girls, peaking in the 2020s. This profile derives year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2014 to 2025.
- #44,854 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #9,979 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 22 born since 2014
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Maelah ranks #44,854 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #9,979 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 22 born since 2014, peaking in the 2020s.
- #44,854 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #9,979 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 22
- born since 2014
- 2020s
- peak decade
Maelah's 22 recorded births place it above 37.6% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Maelah compares
22 8th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Maelah's all-time total is 94% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Maelah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 22 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 10 | 21 | 19,840 |
Maelah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Maelah's SSA record in two at 2022 and the more recent half accounts for 73% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 27%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 2014, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 2025 peak of 10, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Maelah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2014–2025
- Peak year (2025)
- 10
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Maelah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (16 births, 73% of the file).
2020s was Maelah's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 73% of all-time use.
Maelah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s 6
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
16 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 16 births (73% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2014–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Maelah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.