Maleena
Maleena was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,736 among girls’ names; 915 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleena?
#7,736 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleena fell from #5,399 in 2015 to #7,736 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.7 per million.
47 babies in 2017, the peak
Maleena peaked in 2017, when 47 girls were given it, #3,371 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,736 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,979 | 16.7 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,888 | 8.7 |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,416 | 14.6 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,680 | 13.4 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,507 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 26 | #5,118 | 15.5 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,519 | 18.2 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,371 | 27.2 |
| 2016 | 41 | #3,752 | 23.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,399 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,401 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 26 | #5,245 | 14.8 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,258 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,318 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,862 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 40 | #3,924 | 21.8 |
| 2008 | 30 | #4,968 | 15.9 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,697 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,531 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 28 | #4,787 | 15.2 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,016 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,371 | 16.4 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,200 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,771 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #5,423 | 11.6 |
| 1999 | 26 | #4,393 | 14.7 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,193 | 15.3 |
| 1997 | 18 | #5,535 | 10.3 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,679 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 26 | #4,047 | 14.8 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,520 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,208 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,203 | 3.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,460 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleena, and how old are they?
An estimated 906 Americans named Maleena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 9 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 672 people named Maleena (671 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 785 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 14,416 babies since 1880, Maleena is the sixth most given (6.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 304 babies (4.6%), again the sixth 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 Maleena
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 Maleena and names like it
- Compare Maleena and MalinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMaleena peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleena since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Maleena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.