Maliya
Maliya was given to 53 girls in 2025, #3,090 among girls’ names; 2,540 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Maliya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 8 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maliya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maliya?
#3,090 among girls’ names, 2025
Maliya fell from #1,651 in 2015 to #3,090 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 72.8 to 33.0 per million.
192 babies in 2009, the peak
Maliya peaked in 2009, when 192 girls were given it, #1,270 among girls’ names. The 53 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 53 | #3,090 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 55 | #3,001 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 67 | #2,635 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 83 | #2,268 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 83 | #2,245 | 0.05 |
| 2020 | 100 | #1,918 | 0.06 |
| 2019 | 117 | #1,760 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 99 | #1,993 | 0.06 |
| 2017 | 141 | #1,558 | 0.08 |
| 2016 | 108 | #1,888 | 0.06 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 130 | #1,651 | 0.07 |
| 2014 | 120 | #1,741 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 142 | #1,544 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 132 | #1,637 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 138 | #1,586 | 0.08 |
| 2010 | 129 | #1,654 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 192 | #1,270 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,960 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 89 | #2,225 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,242 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,591 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 54 | #2,947 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,632 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 50 | #2,961 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 38 | #3,519 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 30 | #4,130 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,806 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,060 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,143 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,248 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,345 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,821 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maliya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maliya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maliya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maliya, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,540 Americans ever recorded as Maliya. The median Maliya alive today is 13 years old; half are between 8 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,785 people named Maliya (1,773 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,109 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% 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 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,290 |
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 Maliya born?
The states with the most babies named Maliya are Florida, Texas and California, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 6 | #2,057 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,158 | 0.6× |
| California | 5 | #3,366 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,617 | 0.4× |
Where Maliya is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maliya is most over-represented in Florida: since 1994 it was given 1.1 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 Maliya 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 Maliya?
Maliya is a less common spelling of Malia: SSA has recorded 2,540 Maliya and 31,606 Malia since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 71,768 babies since 1880, Maliya is the seventh most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 53 of their 2,154 babies (2.5%), the sixth 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 Maliya
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 Maliya and names like it
- Compare Maliya and MaliaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaliya peaked in 2009.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maliya since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Maliya.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Maliya alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.