Malea
Malea was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,841 among girls’ names; 2,540 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,480 Americans named Malea and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 31.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malea by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malea?
#5,841 among girls’ names, 2025
Malea fell from #2,915 in 2015 to #5,841 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 33.6 to 13.1 per million.
100 babies in 2009, the peak
Malea peaked in 2009, when 100 girls were given it, #2,054 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,841 | 13.1 |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,258 | 21.0 |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,809 | 24.9 |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,632 | 26.2 |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,468 | 27.4 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,719 | 24.7 |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,915 | 34.0 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,897 | 22.3 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,674 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,363 | 27.1 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 60 | #2,915 | 33.6 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,876 | 33.6 |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,716 | 36.5 |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,504 | 41.5 |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,270 | 47.2 |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,284 | 47.3 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,054 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,408 | 42.3 |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,111 | 49.9 |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,141 | 47.9 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,049 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,300 | 41.4 |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,012 | 49.3 |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,117 | 44.5 |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,423 | 36.1 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,496 | 33.6 |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,488 | 32.7 |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,552 | 30.6 |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,011 | 23.0 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,594 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,251 | 19.9 |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,491 | 17.9 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,940 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,633 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,407 | 17.1 |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,678 | 15.3 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,182 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,765 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,989 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,002 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,549 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,576 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,209 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,222 | 15.9 |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,200 | 16.2 |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,790 | 12.6 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,122 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,178 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,340 | 10.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,373 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,797 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,894 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,497 | 8.9 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,972 | 7.2 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,711 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,123 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,086 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,380 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,804 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,101 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,659 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,529 | 5.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,934 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,428 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,162 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,645 | 4.5 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,864 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,385 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,237 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,582 | 10.0 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,197 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,266 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malea a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malea has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 72 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malea: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malea, and how old are they?
2,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,540 Americans ever recorded as Malea. The median Malea alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 31.
The 2020 Census counted 2,130 people named Malea (2,099 women and girls, 31 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 105 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 377 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 588 |
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 Malea born?
The states with the most babies named Malea are California, Ohio and Pennsylvania, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 201 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 64 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 26 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 26 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 20 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| North Carolina | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 12 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Malea 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 68,249 babies since 1880, Malea is the seventh most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 1,884 babies (1.1%), the eighth most given that year.
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 Malea
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 Malea and names like it
- Compare Malea and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalea peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malea since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Malea.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malea alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.