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Maliha

#5,339 in 2025Girls' name

Beautiful, elegant

Maliha has been given to 1,424 babies in the U.S. since 1982. In 2025 it ranked #5,339 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 100 recorded.

Babies named Maliha, 2025

1 in 138,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maliha: meaning, origin, and history

Beautiful, elegant

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maliha means

Maliha means “beautiful, elegant”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,424 girls were recorded with the name Maliha between 1982 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 100 in 2009; its best national rank was #2,055 in 2009.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,876 in 2020 to #5,339 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,703 in 2015 to #5,339 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 Maliha?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 67,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,339
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maliha 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Malihas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliha was born before 2011 — so the typical Maliha is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,424
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (642).

Is Maliha 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
−1,166
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,463
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,636
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.36×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2009 (100)
Years since peak
16
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,055
2009

Spellings of Maliha

Maliha is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 30.1% against Maliha's 0.08%.

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 Maliha is used

Across 2016–2025, Maliha was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 52,754 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 11,111
  2. 2Florida1 in 100,000
  3. 3Georgia1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7Virginia1 in 100,000
  8. 8California1 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.

Maliha around the world

Where Maliha 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
    1996–2025
    #658
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1996–2023
    #482
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2023–2023
    #856
    in 2023
  • France
    1998–2025
    #2,560
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2000–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    2002–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Maliha by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,339
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,463
Best rank ever
#2,055
2009
Peak year
2009
100 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,424
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Maliha

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

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Sibling names for Maliha

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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