Malaiya
#4,235 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malaiya has been given to 513 babies in the U.S. since 2005. In 2025 it ranked #4,235 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2021, with 44 recorded.
Babies named Malaiya, 2025
1 in 97,500
Malaiya over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Malaiya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,235
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malaiya sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malaiya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malaiyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malaiya was born before 2017 — so the typical Malaiya is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 513
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.7% of all recorded uses (250).
Is Malaiya 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
- +743
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +379
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +2,923
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 77.3%
- Peak was 2021 (44)
- Years since peak
- 4
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 34.9% average annual change
Spellings of Malaiya
Malaiya is not the most common spelling — Alaina is, with 23.0% against Malaiya's 0.23%.
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 Malaiya is used
Across 1910–2025, Malaiya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 403,556 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Malaiya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Malaiya around the world
Where Malaiya 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 & Wales2021–2023#5,688in 2023
- Canada2015–2023#2,973in 2023
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Malaiya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malaiya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malaiya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.