Malia — #326 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Malia

The Social Security Administration has registered 30,729 babies named Malia between 1919 and 2024, spanning 106 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malia currently holds the #326 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 1,700 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 11,138 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Malia shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5,181 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Hawaii and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Malia in 49 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malia in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 30,729 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.