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Maliah

#1,688 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Maliah has been given to 5,394 babies in the U.S. since 1991. In 2025 it ranked #1,688 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 356 recorded.

Babies named Maliah, 2025

1 in 27,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maliah: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and deeper origin uncertain

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maliah means

Maliah is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Maliah is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,394 girls were recorded with the name Maliah between 1991 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 356 in 2009; its best national rank was #786 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,096 in 2020 to #1,688 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #925 in 2015 to #1,688 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 Maliah?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 27,200
122 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 13,200
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,688
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
18,836 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maliah 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 18,836 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maliahs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliah was born before 2014 — so the typical Maliah is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
54.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
95.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,394
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 54.2% of all recorded uses (2,921).

Is Maliah 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
−15
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−592
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−763
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.41×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
34.3%
Peak was 2009 (356)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#786
2013

Spellings of Maliah

Maliah is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 38.3% against Maliah's 0.37%.

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 Maliah is used

Across 2016–2025, Maliah was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 3,571 girls, against 1 in 7,140 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 20,000).

528 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 3,571
  2. 2Florida1 in 4,545
  3. 3Alabama1 in 5,263
  4. 4Maryland1 in 5,263
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 5,263
  6. 6Virginia1 in 5,263
  7. 7Connecticut1 in 5,882
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 5,882

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.

Maliah around the world

Where Maliah 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
    2009–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • France
    2010–2025
    #3,113
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,256
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2001–2012
    #563
    in 2012

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.

Maliah by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,688
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 592
Best rank ever
#786
2013
Peak year
2009
356 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,394
Count in 2025
122

Names similar to Maliah

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

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Names with a curve like Maliah

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

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Sibling names for Maliah

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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