Girls' name · since 2007
Mailah
Mailah has 90 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2021 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,317 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,639 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 90
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
90 babies have been named Mailah since 2007, making it today's #10639 girls' name.
Social Security Administration records show Mailah recorded 90 times among girls since 2007, holding rank #10639 nationally today, ahead of 38% 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 2007 to 2025.
- #28,317 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #10,639 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 90 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Mailah ranks #28,317 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #10,639 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 90 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,317 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #10,639 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 90
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Mailah's 90 recorded births place it above 60.77% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Mailah compares
90 23rd 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
Mailah's all-time total is 76% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Mailah | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 90 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 12 | 21 | 19,840 |
Mailah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mailah's full recorded timeline at 2020, 57% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 43% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 2009, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2021 peak of 12 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mailah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2021)
- 12
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Mailah by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (51 births, 57% of the file).
2020s was Mailah's strongest decade.
51 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 57% of all-time use.
Mailah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 11
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
28 births
- 2020s
2020s
51 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 51 births (57% 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, 2007–2025 (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 Mailah 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.