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Malaysia

#958 in 2025Girls' name

Malaysia country name

Malaysia has been given to 11,031 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #958 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 824 recorded.

Babies named Malaysia, 2025

1 in 12,300

Malaysia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malaysia: meaning, origin, and history

Malaysia country name

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malaysia means

Malaysia is a given name taken from the country name in southeastern Asia. The older ethnic and geographical vocabulary has an unsettled etymology, with possible river-name explanations.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,031 girls were recorded with the name Malaysia between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 824 in 2014; its best national rank was #397 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #624 in 2020 to #958 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #436 in 2015 to #958 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.

How common is Malaysia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 12,300
269 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 5,970
0.02% of girls
Rank, 2025
#958
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
8,544 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malaysia 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 8,544 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malaysia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malaysias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malaysia was born before 2015 — so the typical Malaysia is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
51.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
89.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
11,031
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 51.8% of all recorded uses (5,711).

Is Malaysia 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
−103
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−334
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−522
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.37×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
32.6%
Peak was 2014 (824)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#397
2014

Spellings of Malaysia

Malaysia is the most-used spelling, taking 25.5% of the 43,215 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Malaysia is used

Across 2016–2025, Malaysia was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 382 girls, against 1 in 2,657 across all states with data. It was least common in Colorado (1 in 25,000).

4262 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 382
  2. 2Louisiana1 in 769
  3. 3Alabama1 in 971
  4. 4Georgia1 in 1,042
  5. 5South Carolina1 in 1,149
  6. 6Arkansas1 in 1,370
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 1,515
  8. 8Illinois1 in 1,639

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, Malaysia is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 97% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Malaysia around the world

Where Malaysia 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
    2015–2023
    #3,599
    in 2023
  • Canada
    2022–2022
    #2,896
    in 2022

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.

Malaysia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#958
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 334
Best rank ever
#397
2014
Peak year
2014
824 that year
First recorded
1987
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,031
Count in 2025
269

Names similar to Malaysia

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

MalasiaMalissiaMallorieMalissaMaliyahMalindaMaleahMalayahMalorieMalayaMalaniMaleighaAlessiaMalaikaMaliahMalikaMalayasiaMalinaMalloryMalenaMallieMalloriAlaysiaMalka

Names with a curve like Malaysia

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

CharleyMckinleyAverieMadilynnKarsynBrinleyHarleeIvannaAleenaGracelynDylanAveri

Sibling names for Malaysia

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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