Malta
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Malta has been given to 55 babies in the U.S. since 1910. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1915, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Malta, 1970
1 in 601,000
Malta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Malta?
Malta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1970, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1970
- 1 in 601,000
- 6 of 3,606,302 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 291,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1970
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 416,617 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Malta sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1970 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 416,617 children born in 1970 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Malta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maltas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Malta was born before 1920 — so the typical Malta is around 105 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 41.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 20.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 11
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 41.8% of all recorded uses (23).
Is Malta 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1915 (10)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 30.0% average annual change
Spellings of Malta
Malta is not the most common spelling — Maria is, with 26.3% against Malta's <0.01%.
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 Malta is used
Across 1910–2025, Malta was most concentrated in Kentucky — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 166,392 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Kentucky1 in 100,000
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. Malta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Malta by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Malta
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Malta
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.