Meaning not yet researched.
Malaya: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 351 in 2025. Its best rank was #633 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #633 in 2013; #775 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malaya in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#775 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #633.
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Malaya: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 351 girls in 2025. Peak: #633 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 449 (2014).
In 2025, 351 US girls were named Malaya, making it the 775th most common girls’ name of the year, up 38 places from #813 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 341 girls named Malaya in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #633, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 449, in 2014. For comparison, it was #726 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malaya in 45 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 11 babies. In all, 8,467 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,907 babies named Malaya.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,966 US girls were named Malaya; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 447. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,579 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malaya ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #349 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malayah (4,367 babies since 1880) and Mahala (2,889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahayla, Malaiya and Malayia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahayla (925), Malaiya (513), Malayia (490), Malaiyah (432), Malaia (422), Malayiah (412), Malaiah (227), Malai (205), Malay (117), Mahlaya (65), Malae (49), Malayha (16), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Malaya in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 25 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 5 | #349 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #360 | — |
| Georgia | 26 | #441 | #546 |
| Kentucky | 9 | #483 | #607 |
| Mississippi | 6 | #493 | #470 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #505 | #450 |
| Virginia | 15 | #532 | #469 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #591 | #535 |
| Alabama | 8 | #614 | #478 |
| Missouri | 9 | #620 | #719 |
| North Carolina | 17 | #629 | #622 |
| Florida | 26 | #668 | #561 |
| Michigan | 12 | #670 | #614 |
| Ohio | 13 | #731 | #587 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #756 | #561 |
| Indiana | 8 | #776 | #663 |
| Maryland | 6 | #801 | #748 |
| California | 37 | #807 | #898 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #862 | #293 |
| Arizona | 7 | #878 | #1,044 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #979 | #592 |
| Texas | 29 | #997 | #1,130 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,004 | — |
| Illinois | 8 | #1,084 | #711 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,118 | #1,131 |
| New York | 13 | #1,129 | #1,257 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 351 | #775 | — | — |
| 2024 | 341 | #813 | — | — |
| 2023 | 315 | #852 | — | — |
| 2022 | 416 | #708 | — | — |
| 2021 | 447 | #666 | — | — |
| 2020 | 429 | #667 | — | — |
| 2019 | 432 | #671 | — | — |
| 2018 | 380 | #736 | — | — |
| 2017 | 413 | #702 | — | — |
| 2016 | 442 | #667 | — | — |
| 2015 | 391 | #726 | — | — |
| 2014 | 449 | #638 | — | — |
| 2013 | 444 | #633 | — | — |
| 2012 | 350 | #783 | — | — |
| 2011 | 288 | #908 | — | — |
| 2010 | 318 | #846 | — | — |
| 2009 | 376 | #758 | — | — |
| 2008 | 263 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 2007 | 261 | #1,017 | — | — |
| 2006 | 276 | #947 | — | — |
| 2005 | 212 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2004 | 169 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2003 | 126 | #1,539 | — | — |
| 2002 | 116 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 2001 | 97 | #1,828 | — | — |
| 2000 | 84 | #1,994 | — | — |
| 1999 | 48 | #2,835 | — | — |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,050 | — | — |
| 1997 | 28 | #3,966 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,137 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,846 | — | — |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,153 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,479 | — | — |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,333 | — | — |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,837 | — | — |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,912 | — | — |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,676 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,917 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,454 | — | — |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,947 | — | — |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,408 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,419 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,601 | — | — |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,728 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,728 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).