Melaysia — girls' name
135 babies named Melaysia in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2014. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
The verdict
135 girls have been named Melaysia since 1999, peaking in the 2010s, last recorded in 2025.
- 135
- total births
- 1999–2025
- years on record
- 2010s
- peak decade
- 54%
- born in that decade
54% of everyone ever named Melaysia was born in this single decade.
16 babies were named Melaysia in 2014 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Melaysia
The Social Security Administration has registered 135 babies named Melaysia between 1999 and 2025, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Melaysia currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2025. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 16 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Melaysia performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Melaysia shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Melaysia in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Melaysia 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 135 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.
Melaysia at a glance
Last recorded 2025Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Melaysia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2025–1999
- Peak year (2014)
- 16
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2025.
135 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2014 with 16 births in a single year.
Melaysia by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2010s
- 73 births that decade — 54% of Melaysia's all-time total
Melaysia decade highlights
- Peak decade 73 births
- Runner-up 42 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2010s was Melaysia's strongest decade
73 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Melaysia by state
Where Melaysia concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 5 | 3.7% |
5 of 135 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 3.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 3.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.