Meaning not yet researched.
Malayah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 223 in 2025. Its best rank was #842 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #842 in 2022; #1,084 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malayah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,084 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #842.
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Malayah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 223 girls in 2025. Peak: #842 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 333 (2022).
In 2025, 223 US girls were named Malayah, making it the 1,084th most common girls’ name of the year, down 16 places from #1,068 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 233 girls named Malayah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #842, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 333. For comparison, it was #1,202 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malayah in 30 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 5 babies. In all, 4,367 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,115 babies named Malayah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,641 US girls were named Malayah; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 333. In 2025 that was about 1 in 7,207 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malayah ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #580 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malaya (8,467 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahalah 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahalah (54).
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 Malayah 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 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 14 | #580 | #615 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #603 | #471 |
| Kansas | 5 | #647 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #673 | #998 |
| Ohio | 14 | #698 | #1,032 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #743 | #560 |
| Alabama | 6 | #782 | — |
| Georgia | 12 | #836 | #1,029 |
| Florida | 19 | #849 | #1,094 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #877 | — |
| Illinois | 10 | #897 | #1,127 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #1,112 | #1,052 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,131 | #1,337 |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,145 | #831 |
| California | 22 | #1,175 | #1,231 |
| New York | 10 | #1,384 | #1,710 |
| Texas | 12 | #1,873 | #2,323 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 223 | #1,084 | — | — |
| 2024 | 233 | #1,068 | — | — |
| 2023 | 267 | #969 | — | — |
| 2022 | 333 | #842 | — | — |
| 2021 | 307 | #887 | — | — |
| 2020 | 272 | #944 | — | — |
| 2019 | 291 | #911 | — | — |
| 2018 | 228 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2017 | 246 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 2016 | 241 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 2015 | 208 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 2014 | 207 | #1,185 | — | — |
| 2013 | 210 | #1,147 | — | — |
| 2012 | 173 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 2011 | 176 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 2010 | 135 | #1,609 | — | — |
| 2009 | 163 | #1,437 | — | — |
| 2008 | 107 | #1,974 | — | — |
| 2007 | 67 | #2,738 | — | — |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,838 | — | — |
| 2005 | 52 | #3,075 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 2003 | 30 | #4,374 | — | — |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,242 | — | — |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,510 | — | — |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,379 | — | — |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,748 | — | — |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,845 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,090 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,822 | — | — |
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).