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Mahalia

#3,088 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Mahala

Mahalia has been given to 2,370 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,088 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Mahalia, 2025

1 in 62,600

Mahalia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mahalia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mahala

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mahalia means

Mahalia is a variant of Mahala.

Origin, language, and formation

Mahalia is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mahala.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,370 girls were recorded with the name Mahalia between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2020; its best national rank was #899 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,617 in 2020 to #3,088 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,199 in 2015 to #3,088 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mahalia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 62,600
53 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 30,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,088
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
43,358 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mahalia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mahalia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mahalias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mahalia was born before 1999 — so the typical Mahalia is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
46.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,976
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2000s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (429).

Is Mahalia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+65
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−471
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,111
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.51×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
81.5%
Peak was 2020 (65)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
15.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#899
1880

Spellings of Mahalia

Mahalia is not the most common spelling — Natalia is, with 39.1% against Mahalia's 1.1%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Mahalia is used

Across 1910–2025, Mahalia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 222,288 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mahalia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mahalia around the world

Where Mahalia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #3,705
    in 2025
  • France
    1978–2025
    #2,626
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #2,463
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1986–2013
    #205
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mahalia

People whose public names include Mahalia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mahalia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,088
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 471
Best rank ever
#899
1880
Peak year
2020
65 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,370
Count in 2025
53

Names similar to Mahalia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Mahalia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mahalia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Mahalia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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