Maliyah — #587 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Maliyah

The Social Security Administration has registered 14,888 babies named Maliyah between 1994 and 2024, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maliyah currently holds the #587 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2009, when 1,117 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maliyah performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 7,939 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Maliyah shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,485 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Maliyah in 42 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maliyah 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 14,888 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.