Malay Girl Names

Explore names documented in Malay naming traditions. Compare these spellings using U.S. birth records, which do not measure popularity in other countries.

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History
1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled
Babies 2025 · rank5-year rank movementPeak year

Recorded in Malay; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1958.

831#369
Up 564 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1962.

151#1,432
Up 260 rank positions in five years
1994

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965.

200#1,160
Down 82 rank positions in five years
2017

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1959.

91#2,070
Down 452 rank positions in five years
2020

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1965.

43#3,542
Down 382 rank positions in five years
1977

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1994.

232#1,059
Up 664 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1974.

6#14,156
Down 2,488 rank positions in five years
1990

Recorded in Malay; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1897.

—Unranked
—
1923

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1963.

16#6,841
Down 754 rank positions in five years
2003

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

33#4,344
Up 5 rank positions in five years
2023

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1981.

26#5,021
Up 517 rank positions in five years
2010

Recorded in Malay; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1976.

6#13,961
Down 1,228 rank positions in five years
1982

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1975.

23#5,467
Up 1,265 rank positions in five years
2025

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1990.

10#10,087
Down 2,137 rank positions in five years
2006

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1982.

12#8,805
Down 2,204 rank positions in five years
2022

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1972.

—Unranked
—
1975

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1980.

—Unranked
—
1999

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2002.

—Unranked
—
2016

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2019.

—Unranked
—
2023

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2011.

—Unranked
—
2016

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2003.

—Unranked
—
2003

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1987.

—Unranked
—
1988

Documented Malay usage; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 2015.

—Unranked
—
2017

Recorded in Malay; this spelling appears in U.S. birth records from 1973.

—Unranked
—
1973

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Sources & methodology

Meaning summaries use Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and referenced name histories. Each name’s detail page includes its sources.

Membership on this list is editorial — we chose names that genuinely fit the theme. Every number is from official birth data: "—" means the name had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, which makes it a genuinely rare pick today, not an invalid one. The dot marks whether the stats shown are for the girls' or boys' use of the name.

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