Maleya
Maleya was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,366 among girls’ names; 556 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleya?
#7,366 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleya fell from #5,768 in 2015 to #7,366 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 9.3 per million.
50 babies in 2009, the peak
Maleya peaked in 2009, when 50 girls were given it, #3,335 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,366 | 9.3 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,118 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,320 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,894 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 27 | #4,911 | 16.5 |
| 2020 | 24 | #5,258 | 14.8 |
| 2019 | 18 | #6,599 | 10.7 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,990 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,706 | 10.4 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,909 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,768 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,913 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,424 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 27 | #5,194 | 15.3 |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,319 | 19.3 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,925 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,335 | 27.2 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,225 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,461 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,712 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 16 | #7,360 | 8.7 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,539 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,456 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,775 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,645 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,608 | 5.5 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,006 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,908 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,767 | 5.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleya 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 Maleya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleya, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Maleya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 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 384 people named Maleya (383 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 443 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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).
How common is the spelling Maleya?
Maleya is a less common spelling of Malaya: SSA has recorded 556 Maleya and 8,467 Malaya since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 74,861 babies since 1880, Maleya is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 2,189 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 Maleya
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 Maleya and names like it
- Compare Maleya and MalayaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaleya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleya since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maleya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.