Malayah
#1,084 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malayah has been given to 4,367 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #1,084 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 333 recorded.
Babies named Malayah, 2025
1 in 14,900
Malayah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Malayah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 14,900
- 223 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 7,210
- 0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,084
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 10,306 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malayah 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 10,306 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malayah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Malayahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malayah was born before 2017 — so the typical Malayah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 48.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 98.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,367
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 48.4% of all recorded uses (2,115).
Is Malayah 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
- −16
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −140
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +118
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.07×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 67.0%
- Peak was 2022 (333)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 16.5% average annual change
Spellings of Malayah
Malayah is not the most common spelling — Aaliyah is, with 31.6% against Malayah's 1.3%.
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 Malayah is used
Across 2016–2025, Malayah was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 2,500 girls, against 1 in 5,301 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).
Most concentrated
- 1South Carolina1 in 2,500
- 2Mississippi1 in 2,778
- 3Georgia1 in 2,857
- 4Louisiana1 in 3,030
- 5Michigan1 in 3,030
- 6North Carolina1 in 3,030
- 7Alabama1 in 3,448
- 8Illinois1 in 3,448
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.
Geographically, Malayah is somewhat regional — more concentrated than 53% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names
Malayah around the world
Where Malayah 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 & Wales2011–2025#3,333in 2025
- Canada2010–2024#3,457in 2024
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.
Malayah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malayah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Malayah
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Malayah, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Malayah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.