Meaning not yet researched.
Maleia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 59 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,102 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,102 in 2023; #2,880 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maleia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,880 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #2,102.
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Maleia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 59 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,102 in 2023 · most girls in one year: 92 (2023).
In 2025, 59 US girls were named Maleia, making it the 2,880th most common girls’ name of the year, up 674 places from #3,554 in 2024. That is 15 more than the 44 girls named Maleia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,102, reached in 2023. That year also had the most girls given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #4,674 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maleia in 46 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1956 with 10 babies. In all, 1,187 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 372 babies named Maleia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 505 US girls were named Maleia; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 92. In 2025 that was about 1 in 27,242 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maleia ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #871 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), Maleah (9,426 babies since 1880), Maliah (5,394 babies since 1880) and Mallie (3,869 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Maleia 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #871 | — |
| Texas | 10 | #2,146 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,977 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 59 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,554 | — | — |
| 2023 | 92 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 2022 | 62 | #2,775 | — | — |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,807 | — | — |
| 2020 | 54 | #2,996 | — | — |
| 2019 | 48 | #3,315 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 2017 | 30 | #4,654 | — | — |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,406 | — | — |
| 2015 | 30 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 2014 | 34 | #4,325 | — | — |
| 2013 | 42 | #3,679 | — | — |
| 2012 | 46 | #3,507 | — | — |
| 2011 | 39 | #3,885 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,604 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,525 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,348 | — | — |
| 2006 | 34 | #4,323 | — | — |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,202 | — | — |
| 2004 | 23 | #5,485 | — | — |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,167 | — | — |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,844 | — | — |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,940 | — | — |
| 2000 | 29 | #4,245 | — | — |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,570 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,912 | — | — |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,419 | — | — |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,270 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,151 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,153 | — | — |
| 1992 | 8 | #10,072 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,468 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,100 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,455 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,602 | — | — |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,420 | — | — |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,782 | — | — |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,619 | — | — |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,934 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,202 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,598 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,306 | — | — |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,678 | — | — |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,069 | — | — |
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).