Mahalia — #3166 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Mahalia

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,316 babies named Mahalia between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mahalia currently holds the #3166 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2020, when 65 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mahalia performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 429 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Mahalia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 102 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mahalia in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mahalia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,316 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.