Mahlia
Mahlia was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,236 among girls’ names; 608 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mahlia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mahlia?
#9,236 among girls’ names, 2025
Mahlia fell from #6,620 in 2015 to #9,236 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 10.6 to 6.8 per million.
43 babies in 2009, the peak
Mahlia peaked in 2009, when 43 girls were given it, #3,717 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,236 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,308 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,312 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,860 | 17.1 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,685 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,837 | 16.7 |
| 2019 | 34 | #4,229 | 20.3 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,263 | 14.7 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,759 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,100 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #6,620 | 10.6 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,341 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,710 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 32 | #4,563 | 18.2 |
| 2011 | 27 | #5,147 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 36 | #4,153 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,717 | 23.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,268 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,615 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,362 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,166 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,975 | 9.3 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,294 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,226 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,813 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,843 | 7.2 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,981 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,346 | 6.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #12,813 | 3.4 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,695 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 5 | #14,476 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mahlia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mahlia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mahlia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mahlia, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Mahlia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 489 people named Mahlia (489 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 478 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Mahlia?
Mahlia is a less common spelling of Malia: SSA has recorded 608 Mahlia and 31,606 Malia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 51,816 babies since 1880, Mahlia is the eighth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,201 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Mahlia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Mahlia and names like it
- Compare Mahlia and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMahlia peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mahlia since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Mahlia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mahlia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.