Malaya — #813 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Malaya

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,111 babies named Malaya between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malaya currently holds the #813 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 449 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malaya performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 3,906 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Malaya shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 925 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Malaya in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malaya 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 8,111 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.