Meaning not yet researched.
Malaysia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 269 in 2025. Its best rank was #397 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #397 in 2014; #958 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malaysia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#958 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #397.
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Malaysia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 269 girls in 2025. Peak: #397 in 2014 · most girls in one year: 824 (2014).
In 2025, 269 US girls were named Malaysia, making it the 958th most common girls’ name of the year, down 103 places from #855 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 317 girls named Malaysia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #397, reached in 2014. That year also had the most girls given the name: 824. For comparison, it was #436 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malaysia in 39 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 8 babies. In all, 11,031 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 5,711 babies named Malaysia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 4,911 US girls were named Malaysia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 687. In 2025 that was about 1 in 5,975 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malaysia ranked highest in Mississippi in 2025, at #326 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Malasia, Malissia and Malayasia are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Malasia (748), Malissia (485), Malayasia (183), Malayzia (93), Malaysiah (56), Maylasia (31), Malisia (24), Malazia (18), Malaisia (15), Malaycia (11), Malysia (7), Malacia (5), 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 Malaysia 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | 9 | #326 | #64 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #334 | #108 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #455 | #179 |
| Alabama | 11 | #470 | #131 |
| Michigan | 15 | #537 | #379 |
| Missouri | 11 | #544 | #514 |
| Georgia | 18 | #600 | #203 |
| Indiana | 10 | #635 | — |
| Illinois | 15 | #650 | #278 |
| Florida | 19 | #850 | #260 |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | #850 | #322 |
| Ohio | 11 | #855 | #682 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #861 | #184 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #878 | #204 |
| Wisconsin | 5 | #878 | #322 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,132 | #912 |
| Texas | 22 | #1,211 | #804 |
| New York | 8 | #1,607 | #633 |
| California | 8 | #2,409 | #1,076 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 269 | #958 | — | — |
| 2024 | 317 | #855 | — | — |
| 2023 | 363 | #777 | — | — |
| 2022 | 489 | #610 | — | — |
| 2021 | 483 | #616 | — | — |
| 2020 | 466 | #624 | — | — |
| 2019 | 548 | #556 | — | — |
| 2018 | 628 | #497 | — | — |
| 2017 | 661 | #473 | — | — |
| 2016 | 687 | #465 | — | — |
| 2015 | 725 | #436 | — | — |
| 2014 | 824 | #397 | — | — |
| 2013 | 635 | #480 | — | — |
| 2012 | 515 | #570 | — | — |
| 2011 | 266 | #961 | — | — |
| 2010 | 222 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 2009 | 215 | #1,171 | — | — |
| 2008 | 208 | #1,220 | — | — |
| 2007 | 177 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2006 | 207 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 2005 | 234 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2004 | 178 | #1,235 | — | — |
| 2003 | 200 | #1,104 | — | — |
| 2002 | 186 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 2001 | 194 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 2000 | 211 | #1,005 | — | — |
| 1999 | 152 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1998 | 143 | #1,269 | — | — |
| 1997 | 125 | #1,376 | — | — |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,851 | — | — |
| 1993 | 59 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,419 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,817 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,200 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,471 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,449 | — | — |
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).