Maliha
Maliha was given to 24 girls in 2025, #5,339 among girls’ names; 1,424 Americans have been recorded with it since 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,410 Americans named Maliha and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maliha by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maliha?
#5,339 among girls’ names, 2025
Maliha fell from #2,703 in 2015 to #5,339 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 37.0 to 14.9 per million.
100 babies in 2009, the peak
Maliha peaked in 2009, when 100 girls were given it, #2,055 among girls’ names. The 24 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 24 | #5,339 | 14.9 |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,173 | 21.6 |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,687 | 26.2 |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,639 | 18.3 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,532 | 26.8 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,876 | 35.3 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,976 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,277 | 28.8 |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,919 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,564 | 24.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 66 | #2,703 | 37.0 |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,996 | 31.9 |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,453 | 42.2 |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,180 | 49.4 |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,082 | 52.9 |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,418 | 43.9 |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,055 | 54.4 |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,766 | 34.9 |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,832 | 21.8 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,601 | 23.1 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,054 | 14.1 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,888 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,340 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,201 | 12.8 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,482 | 11.7 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,911 | 13.2 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,521 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,249 | 9.1 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,055 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,577 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,344 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,926 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,211 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,198 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,350 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,326 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,461 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,913 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,445 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,033 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,883 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,540 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maliha a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maliha has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maliha: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maliha, and how old are they?
1,410 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,424 Americans ever recorded as Maliha. The median Maliha alive today is 15 years old; half are between 9 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 1,784 people named Maliha (1,780 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,197 born in the U.S. The Census count is 49% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 106 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 692 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 612 |
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 Maliha born?
The states with the most babies named Maliha are New York, California and Texas, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 248 | not ranked | 2.8× |
| California | 80 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 58 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Florida | 41 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 23 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 21 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Georgia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Maliha is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maliha is most over-represented in New York: since 1982 it was given 2.8 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 Maliha 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 68,825 babies since 1880, Maliha is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 24 of their 1,955 babies (1.2%), the seventh 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 Maliha
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 Maliha and names like it
- Compare Maliha and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaliha peaked in 2009.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maliha since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maliha.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maliha alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.