Malayna
Malayna was given to 25 girls in 2025, #5,175 among girls’ names; 1,392 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Malayna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malayna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malayna?
#5,175 among girls’ names, 2025
Malayna fell from #3,686 in 2015 to #5,175 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 23.5 to 15.6 per million.
106 babies in 2004, the peak
Malayna peaked in 2004, when 106 girls were given it, #1,805 among girls’ names. The 25 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 25 | #5,175 | 15.6 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,625 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 38 | #3,957 | 23.7 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,166 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 34 | #4,207 | 20.7 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,128 | 21.0 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,975 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 28 | #4,844 | 16.5 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,524 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,563 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 42 | #3,686 | 23.5 |
| 2014 | 51 | #3,211 | 28.5 |
| 2013 | 48 | #3,351 | 27.4 |
| 2012 | 53 | #3,154 | 30.1 |
| 2011 | 55 | #3,079 | 31.3 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,067 | 30.9 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,334 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,300 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,739 | 34.8 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,474 | 39.4 |
| 2005 | 83 | #2,218 | 44.9 |
| 2004 | 106 | #1,805 | 57.7 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,396 | 23.5 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,770 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,156 | 16.7 |
| 2000 | 36 | #3,628 | 19.8 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,878 | 26.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,273 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,689 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,948 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,842 | 9.1 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,406 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,109 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,893 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,219 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,907 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,675 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malayna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malayna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malayna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malayna, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,392 Americans ever recorded as Malayna. The median Malayna alive today is 18 years old; half are between 11 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,099 people named Malayna (1,095 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 99 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 812 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 468 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 20,355 babies since 1880, Malayna is the fourth most given (6.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 25 of their 1,062 babies (2.4%), again the fourth 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 Malayna
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 Malayna and names like it
- Compare Malayna and MalaniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalayna peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malayna since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Malayna.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malayna alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.