Malaysia
Malaysia was given to 269 girls in 2025, #958 among girls’ names; 11,031 Americans have been recorded with it since 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,900 Americans named Malaysia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 7 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malaysia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malaysia?
#958 among girls’ names, 2025
Malaysia fell from #436 in 2015 to #958 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.41 to 0.17 per 1,000.
824 babies in 2014, the peak
Malaysia peaked in 2014, when 824 girls were given it, #397 among girls’ names. The 269 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #958 | 0.17 |
| 2024 | 317 | #855 | 0.20 |
| 2023 | 363 | #777 | 0.23 |
| 2022 | 489 | #610 | 0.30 |
| 2021 | 483 | #616 | 0.29 |
| 2020 | 466 | #624 | 0.29 |
| 2019 | 548 | #556 | 0.33 |
| 2018 | 628 | #497 | 0.37 |
| 2017 | 661 | #473 | 0.38 |
| 2016 | 687 | #465 | 0.39 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 725 | #436 | 0.41 |
| 2014 | 824 | #397 | 0.46 |
| 2013 | 635 | #480 | 0.36 |
| 2012 | 515 | #570 | 0.29 |
| 2011 | 266 | #961 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,112 | 0.12 |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,171 | 0.12 |
| 2008 | 208 | #1,220 | 0.11 |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,368 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 207 | #1,178 | 0.11 |
| 2005 | 234 | #1,033 | 0.13 |
| 2004 | 178 | #1,234 | 0.10 |
| 2003 | 200 | #1,103 | 0.11 |
| 2002 | 186 | #1,124 | 0.10 |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,094 | 0.11 |
| 2000 | 211 | #1,004 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,240 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,267 | 0.08 |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,363 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,824 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,846 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,225 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,414 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,811 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,194 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,466 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,444 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malaysia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malaysia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 39 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malaysia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malaysia, and how old are they?
10,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 11,031 Americans ever recorded as Malaysia. The median Malaysia alive today is 11 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 6,214 people named Malaysia (6,196 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,697 born in the U.S. The Census count is 29% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 493 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,400 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 7,050 |
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).
Where are babies named Malaysia born?
The states with the most babies named Malaysia are Texas, Florida and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 22 | #1,211 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 19 | #850 | 1.4× |
| Georgia | 18 | #600 | 2.3× |
| Illinois | 15 | #650 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 15 | #537 | 1.1× |
| Louisiana | 14 | #334 | 3.5× |
| North Carolina | 11 | #878 | 1.6× |
| Alabama | 11 | #470 | 2.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #850 | 1.1× |
| South Carolina | 11 | #455 | 2.7× |
Where Malaysia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malaysia is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1987 it was given 4.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malaysia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 12,902 babies since 1880, Malaysia is the most given (85% of them). In 2025 it was given to 269 of their 278 babies (97%), again the 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 Malaysia
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 Malaysia and names like it
- Compare Malaysia and MalasiaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalaysia peaked in 2014.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malaysia since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Malaysia.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malaysia alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.