Mahala

Girls’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Mahala was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,357 among girls’ names; 2,889 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 1,830 Americans named Mahala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 17 and 35.

No sourced meaning is on record for Mahala: Wiktionary has no entry for it as a given name.

Babies named Mahala each year, first recorded in 1880

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Mahala or Malaya Names of the 2000s Names in Ohio

Births of Mahala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

How popular is Mahala?

#7,357 among girls’ names, 2025

Mahala fell from #5,060 in 2015 to #7,357 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.1 to 9.3 per million.

74 babies in 2006, the peak

Mahala peaked in 2006, when 74 girls were given it, #2,500 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.

Mahala by year
Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2025	15	#7,357	0.01
2024	25	#5,235	0.02
2023	25	#5,200	0.02
2022	30	#4,636	0.02
2021	26	#5,033	0.02
2020	23	#5,416	0.01
2019	20	#6,103	0.01
2018	27	#4,948	0.02
2017	40	#3,811	0.02
2016	28	#4,935	0.02

Every recorded year (141)

Year	Births	Rank	Per 1,000 girls
2015	27	#5,060	0.02
2014	31	#4,614	0.02
2013	27	#5,088	0.02
2012	32	#4,562	0.02
2011	32	#4,524	0.02
2010	41	#3,788	0.02
2009	55	#3,114	0.03
2008	60	#2,939	0.03
2007	53	#3,234	0.03
2006	74	#2,500	0.04
2005	64	#2,654	0.03
2004	58	#2,792	0.03
2003	72	#2,331	0.04
2002	63	#2,513	0.04
2001	57	#2,651	0.03
2000	71	#2,223	0.04
1999	68	#2,212	0.04
1998	51	#2,676	0.03
1997	50	#2,574	0.03
1996	35	#3,332	0.02
1995	31	#3,541	0.02
1994	26	#4,068	0.01
1993	19	#5,106	0.01
1992	17	#5,616	0.01
1991	19	#5,103	0.01
1990	21	#4,611	0.01
1989	13	#6,378	0.01
1988	11	#6,918	0.01
1987	11	#6,581	0.01
1986	6	#10,319	under 0.01
1985	12	#5,892	0.01
1984	12	#5,734	0.01
1983	6	#9,723	under 0.01
1982	16	#4,637	0.01
1981	9	#7,131	0.01
1980	24	#3,462	0.01
1979	14	#4,984	0.01
1978	13	#5,085	0.01
1977	16	#4,339	0.01
1976	8	#7,000	0.01
1975	7	#7,631	under 0.01
1974	8	#6,600	0.01
1972	8	#6,306	0.01
1971	6	#7,927	under 0.01
1970	12	#4,652	0.01
1969	5	#8,152	under 0.01
1968	6	#6,700	under 0.01
1966	9	#4,719	0.01
1964	8	#5,273	under 0.01
1963	5	#7,225	under 0.01
1962	13	#3,699	0.01
1961	5	#7,160	under 0.01
1959	13	#3,548	0.01
1958	6	#5,832	under 0.01
1957	9	#4,418	under 0.01
1956	12	#3,606	0.01
1955	12	#3,496	0.01
1954	13	#3,255	0.01
1953	12	#3,389	0.01
1952	17	#2,631	0.01
1951	13	#3,037	0.01
1950	19	#2,307	0.01
1949	9	#3,777	0.01
1948	9	#3,769	0.01
1947	19	#2,322	0.01
1946	20	#2,125	0.01
1945	9	#3,296	0.01
1944	5	#4,994	under 0.01
1943	5	#5,092	under 0.01
1942	21	#1,899	0.02
1941	15	#2,233	0.01
1940	11	#2,662	0.01
1939	9	#3,046	0.01
1938	8	#3,345	0.01
1937	11	#2,666	0.01
1935	7	#3,624	0.01
1934	13	#2,378	0.01
1933	9	#3,026	0.01
1932	11	#2,761	0.01
1931	9	#3,129	0.01
1930	16	#2,163	0.01
1929	16	#2,149	0.01
1928	13	#2,573	0.01
1927	20	#1,987	0.02
1926	19	#2,046	0.02
1925	25	#1,725	0.02
1924	19	#2,098	0.02
1923	31	#1,480	0.03
1922	17	#2,243	0.01
1921	18	#2,168	0.01
1920	23	#1,786	0.02
1919	13	#2,591	0.01
1918	21	#1,851	0.02
1917	24	#1,579	0.02
1916	18	#1,921	0.02
1915	24	#1,503	0.02
1914	16	#1,703	0.02
1913	26	#1,082	0.04
1912	19	#1,240	0.03
1911	11	#1,511	0.03
1910	12	#1,395	0.03
1909	16	#1,036	0.05
1908	15	#1,070	0.04
1907	19	#888	0.06
1906	22	#782	0.07
1905	13	#1,081	0.04
1904	9	#1,327	0.03
1903	14	#957	0.05
1902	11	#1,109	0.04
1901	9	#1,195	0.04
1900	17	#933	0.06
1899	10	#1,070	0.04
1898	22	#710	0.09
1897	17	#777	0.07
1896	17	#804	0.07
1895	14	#883	0.06
1894	19	#694	0.09
1893	17	#731	0.08
1892	21	#630	0.10
1891	22	#567	0.12
1890	19	#611	0.10
1889	13	#743	0.07
1888	23	#530	0.13
1887	17	#549	0.12
1886	13	#647	0.09
1885	17	#530	0.13
1884	13	#605	0.10
1883	20	#430	0.18
1882	25	#355	0.23
1881	13	#480	0.14
1880	9	#613	0.10

Download Mahala’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.

Is Mahala a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Mahala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 141 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).

Girls and boys named Mahala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Mahala, and how old are they?

1,830 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 64% of the 2,889 Americans ever recorded as Mahala. The median Mahala alive today is 24 years old; half are between 17 and 35.

The 2020 Census counted 1,648 people named Mahala (1,645 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,765 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.

Alive today, by age

100-1091

90-9912

80-8954

70-7999

60-6958

50-5956

40-49123

30-39199

20-29 (median)620

10-19383

0-9230

Alive today, by generation

By generation
Generation	Born	Alive
Silent Generation	1928-1945	53
Baby Boomers	1946-1964	161
Generation X	1965-1980	128
Millennials	1981-1996	257
Generation Z	1997-2012	891
Generation Alpha	2013-2025	342

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Names spelled alike

Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 19,251 babies since 1880, Mahala is the second most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 596 babies (2.5%), the fifth most given that year.

Mahala and the names spelled alike
Name	Since 1880	Births 2025	Peak year
Malaya	8,467	351	2014
Mahala	2,889	15	2006
Mahalia	2,370	53	2020
Mayla	1,703	115	2024
Mayola	1,211	under 5	1922
Mayela	927	8	2005
Mahayla	925	12	2010
Maila	759	42	2022

Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mahala

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

Name	Recorded	1880-2025
Abbie	22,556
Sena	3,326
Phebe	2,958
Dessa	1,817
Mollie	48,210
Libbie	2,513

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Mahala and names like it

Compare Mahala and MalayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
The most given names of the 2000sMahala peaked in 2006.
Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahala since 1910.
The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Mahala.
The names of Generation ZMost people named Mahala alive today were born 1997-2012.
Names starting with MMost given first.

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