Malayia
Malayia was given to 11 girls in 2025, #9,245 among girls’ names; 490 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malayia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malayia?
#9,245 among girls’ names, 2025
Malayia fell from #5,398 in 2015 to #9,245 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 6.8 per million.
30 babies in 2013, the peak
Malayia peaked in 2013, when 30 girls were given it, #4,713 among girls’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 37% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #9,245 | 6.8 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,755 | 7.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,886 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,613 | 11.0 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,034 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,300 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,104 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,951 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,135 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,936 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,398 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,400 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,713 | 17.1 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,773 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,261 | 11.9 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,753 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,036 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,613 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,460 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,511 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,222 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,654 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,979 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,228 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,607 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,906 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,009 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,904 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,797 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malayia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malayia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malayia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malayia, and how old are they?
An estimated 486 Americans named Malayia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 331 people named Malayia (330 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 398 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 51,952 babies since 1880, Malayia is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 1,634 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 Malayia
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 Malayia and names like it
- Compare Malayia and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalayia peaked in 2013.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Malayia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malayia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.