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Malea

#5,841 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Malia

Malea has been given to 2,540 babies in the U.S. since 1954. In 2025 it ranked #5,841 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Malea, 2025

1 in 158,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Malea: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Malia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Malea means

Malea is a variant of Malia.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Malea → Malia. The family’s meaning is “calm”, recorded in English with the source elements Mālia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Malia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,540 girls were recorded with the name Malea between 1954 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,012 in 2003.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,719 in 2020 to #5,841 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,915 in 2015 to #5,841 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 Malea?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,841
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Malea 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 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malea. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maleas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Malea was born before 2005 — so the typical Malea is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
32.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,540
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 32.7% of all recorded uses (831).

Is Malea 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
−1,583
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,122
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,926
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.35×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.0%
Peak was 2009 (100)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
14.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,012
2003

Spellings of Malea

Malea is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 22.3% against Malea's 0.10%.

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 Malea is used

Across 1910–2025, Malea was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 218,682 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Ohio1 in 100,000
  3. 3Washington1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Iowa1 in —
  7. 7Illinois1 in —
  8. 8Indiana1 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. Malea has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Malea around the world

Where Malea 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
    2008–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    1997–2014
    #7,528
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #3,457
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Malea by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,841
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,122
Best rank ever
#2,012
2003
Peak year
2009
100 that year
First recorded
1954
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,540
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Malea

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

MalkyMalakMaliyaMalkaMallieMalinMalenaMalinaMalihaMaliMaloryMalikaMalanaMaliahMaleiaMalaikaMaleniKyleaMalaniKaleaMalieMaloriMalayaMalorie

Names with a curve like Malea

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

NadyaAnjaVeronikaAllanaMariyaAleksandraAlonnaAniSeannaRiaJacelynKamaria

Sibling names for Malea

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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