Maliya
#3,090 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maliya has been given to 2,540 babies in the U.S. since 1994. In 2025 it ranked #3,090 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2009, with 192 recorded.
Babies named Maliya, 2025
1 in 62,600
Maliya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Maliya?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 62,600
- 53 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 30,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #3,090
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 43,358 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maliya 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 43,358 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maliya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maliyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maliya was born before 2013 — so the typical Maliya is around 12 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 49.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 95.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,540
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 49.4% of all recorded uses (1,256).
Is Maliya 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
- −89
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,172
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,439
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.41×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 27.6%
- Peak was 2009 (192)
- Years since peak
- 16
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 18.8% average annual change
Spellings of Maliya
Maliya is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 34.2% against Maliya's 0.15%.
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 Maliya is used
Across 2016–2025, Maliya was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 22,407 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).
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.
Maliya around the world
Where Maliya 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 & Wales2005–2025#3,035in 2025
- France2005–2025#1,307in 2025
- Canada2007–2024#2,256in 2024
- South Australia2010–2010#521in 2010
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.
Maliya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maliya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Maliya
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Maliya, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Maliya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.