Meaning not yet researched.
Maleah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 187 in 2025. Its best rank was #595 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #595 in 2009; #1,215 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maleah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,215 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #595.
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Maleah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 187 girls in 2025. Peak: #595 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 508 (2009).
In 2025, 187 US girls were named Maleah, making it the 1,215th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4 places from #1,211 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 196 girls named Maleah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #595, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 508. For comparison, it was #834 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maleah in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 6 babies. In all, 9,426 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 4,115 babies named Maleah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,000 US girls were named Maleah; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 424. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,595 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maleah ranked highest in Arkansas in 2025, at #628 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malia (31,606 babies since 1880), Maliyah (15,359 babies since 1880), Maliah (5,394 babies since 1880) and Malea (2,540 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maleeha, Maleigh and Maleaha 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: Maleeha (292), Maleigh (246), Maleaha (190), Mayleah (30), Maleehah (18), Mahleah (11), Maeleah (11), Maleaya (6).
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 Maleah 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | 5 | #628 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #674 | #858 |
| Alabama | 7 | #687 | #596 |
| Georgia | 13 | #782 | #547 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #821 | #285 |
| Florida | 18 | #903 | #758 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #954 | #801 |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,026 | #815 |
| Texas | 26 | #1,081 | #950 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,230 | #776 |
| New York | 7 | #1,768 | #1,258 |
| California | 11 | #1,903 | #1,045 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 187 | #1,215 | — | — |
| 2024 | 196 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 2023 | 223 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 2022 | 266 | #993 | — | — |
| 2021 | 310 | #880 | — | — |
| 2020 | 309 | #871 | — | — |
| 2019 | 424 | #684 | — | — |
| 2018 | 342 | #797 | — | — |
| 2017 | 366 | #760 | — | — |
| 2016 | 377 | #757 | — | — |
| 2015 | 337 | #834 | — | — |
| 2014 | 415 | #683 | — | — |
| 2013 | 461 | #610 | — | — |
| 2012 | 449 | #638 | — | — |
| 2011 | 471 | #614 | — | — |
| 2010 | 473 | #622 | — | — |
| 2009 | 508 | #595 | — | — |
| 2008 | 337 | #839 | — | — |
| 2007 | 375 | #772 | — | — |
| 2006 | 320 | #842 | — | — |
| 2005 | 268 | #929 | — | — |
| 2004 | 266 | #910 | — | — |
| 2003 | 219 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 2002 | 256 | #884 | — | — |
| 2001 | 214 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 2000 | 162 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 1999 | 109 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1997 | 70 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1996 | 62 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1995 | 49 | #2,574 | — | — |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,972 | — | — |
| 1993 | 49 | #2,557 | — | — |
| 1992 | 39 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1991 | 30 | #3,596 | — | — |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,983 | — | — |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,077 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,273 | — | — |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,350 | — | — |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,552 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,817 | — | — |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,500 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,601 | — | — |
| 1981 | 15 | #4,860 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,986 | — | — |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,580 | — | — |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,105 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,850 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,363 | — | — |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,210 | — | — |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,058 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,070 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #5,004 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,493 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,137 | — | — |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,751 | — | — |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,420 | — | — |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,702 | — | — |
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).