Meaning not yet researched.
Malea: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,013 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,013 in 2003; #5,842 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malea in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,842 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #2,013.
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Malea: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,013 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 100 (2009).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Malea, making it the 5,842nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,583 places from #4,259 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 34 girls named Malea in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,013, reached in 2003. The most girls given the name in a single year was 100, in 2009. For comparison, it was #2,915 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malea in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 5 babies. In all, 2,540 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 831 babies named Malea.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 408 US girls were named Malea; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Malia (31,606 babies since 1880), Maleah (9,426 babies since 1880), Maliah (5,394 babies since 1880) and Maylee (4,596 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maleeya 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: Maleeya (327).
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 Malea in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,842 | — | — |
| 2024 | 34 | #4,259 | — | — |
| 2023 | 40 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 2022 | 43 | #3,634 | — | — |
| 2021 | 45 | #3,469 | — | — |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 2019 | 57 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,898 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,675 | — | — |
| 2016 | 48 | #3,363 | — | — |
| 2015 | 60 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,878 | — | — |
| 2013 | 64 | #2,717 | — | — |
| 2012 | 73 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 2011 | 83 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 2010 | 84 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,054 | — | — |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2006 | 91 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 2004 | 76 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 2003 | 90 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 2002 | 80 | #2,120 | — | — |
| 2001 | 65 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1999 | 58 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1998 | 54 | #2,555 | — | — |
| 1997 | 40 | #3,014 | — | — |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,599 | — | — |
| 1995 | 35 | #3,256 | — | — |
| 1994 | 32 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,945 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,638 | — | — |
| 1991 | 32 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 1990 | 29 | #3,683 | — | — |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,188 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,770 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,994 | — | — |
| 1986 | 12 | #6,005 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,551 | — | — |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,577 | — | — |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,210 | — | — |
| 1982 | 27 | #3,223 | — | — |
| 1981 | 27 | #3,200 | — | — |
| 1980 | 21 | #3,791 | — | — |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,122 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,178 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,341 | — | — |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,375 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,799 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,895 | — | — |
| 1973 | 13 | #4,498 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,973 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,713 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,124 | — | — |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,087 | — | — |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,381 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,805 | — | — |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,102 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,660 | — | — |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,530 | — | — |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,935 | — | — |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,429 | — | — |
| 1961 | 5 | #7,163 | — | — |
| 1960 | 9 | #4,646 | — | — |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,865 | — | — |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,386 | — | — |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,238 | — | — |
| 1956 | 20 | #2,583 | — | — |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,268 | — | — |
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).