Maliah
Maliah was given to 122 girls in 2025, #1,688 among girls’ names; 5,394 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,350 Americans named Maliah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 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 Maliah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maliah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maliah is “a female given name.”
Probably a respelling of Malia.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maliah?
#1,688 among girls’ names, 2025
Maliah fell from #925 in 2015 to #1,688 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.17 to 0.08 per 1,000.
356 babies in 2009, the peak
Maliah peaked in 2009, when 356 girls were given it, #795 among girls’ names. The 122 births of 2025 are 34% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,688 | 0.08 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,673 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,194 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 209 | #1,161 | 0.13 |
| 2021 | 210 | #1,165 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,096 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 283 | #934 | 0.17 |
| 2018 | 261 | #1,001 | 0.15 |
| 2017 | 285 | #930 | 0.17 |
| 2016 | 315 | #892 | 0.18 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 297 | #925 | 0.17 |
| 2014 | 287 | #942 | 0.16 |
| 2013 | 347 | #786 | 0.20 |
| 2012 | 278 | #924 | 0.16 |
| 2011 | 289 | #904 | 0.16 |
| 2010 | 279 | #928 | 0.16 |
| 2009 | 356 | #795 | 0.19 |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,413 | 0.09 |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,585 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,984 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,233 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,356 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,195 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,009 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,583 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,497 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,223 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,539 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,409 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,677 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,343 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,408 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,172 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,480 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,998 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maliah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maliah 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 Maliah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maliah, and how old are they?
5,350 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 5,394 Americans ever recorded as Maliah. The median Maliah alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 3,429 people named Maliah (3,411 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,331 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% 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 | 65 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,140 |
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 Maliah born?
The states with the most babies named Maliah are California, Florida and Texas, with 52% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 15 | #1,542 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,093 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,147 | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,042 | 1.4× |
| Colorado | 6 | #868 | 0.3× |
| Kentucky | 6 | #713 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,534 | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,345 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,034 | 0.6× |
Where Maliah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maliah is most over-represented in Georgia: since 1991 it was given 1.4 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 Maliah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Maliah?
Maliah is a less common spelling of Malia: SSA has recorded 5,394 Maliah and 31,606 Malia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 72,727 babies since 1880, Maliah is the fourth most given (7.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 122 of their 1,990 babies (6.1%), the fifth 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 Maliah
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 Maliah and names like it
- Compare Maliah and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaliah peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maliah since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maliah.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maliah alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.