Meaning not yet researched.
Malia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 872 in 2025. Its best rank was #192 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #192 in 2009; #349 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#349 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #192.
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Malia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 872 girls in 2025. Peak: #192 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 1,700 (2009).
In 2025, 872 US girls were named Malia, making it the 349th most common girls’ name of the year, down 21 places from #328 in 2024. That is 76 fewer than the 948 girls named Malia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #192, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,700. For comparison, it was #315 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malia in 75 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 5 babies. In all, 31,606 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 11,140 babies named Malia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 11,743 US girls were named Malia; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 1,429. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,843 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malia ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #20 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Maria (570,389 babies since 1880), Amalia (16,478 babies since 1880), Malina (4,452 babies since 1880) and Maliyah (15,359 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maylie, Maelie and Mayli 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: Maylie (680), Maelie (673), Mayli (623), Mahlia (608), Maleya (556), Maeli (480), Malie (391), Maili (366), Malee (333), Maylea (328), Maleiah (327), Malyah (300), 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 Malia 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 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 18 | #20 | #75 |
| New Mexico | 9 | #174 | — |
| Nevada | 14 | #190 | #162 |
| Montana | 6 | #196 | — |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #208 | — |
| Maryland | 21 | #251 | #168 |
| California | 126 | #263 | #269 |
| Virginia | 31 | #270 | #259 |
| Washington | 26 | #282 | #258 |
| Indiana | 25 | #288 | #410 |
| New Jersey | 29 | #291 | #380 |
| Idaho | 8 | #296 | #270 |
| Florida | 61 | #307 | #223 |
| Georgia | 33 | #331 | #239 |
| Pennsylvania | 33 | #333 | #323 |
| Utah | 13 | #351 | #273 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #357 | #554 |
| Arizona | 19 | #365 | #338 |
| Massachusetts | 16 | #367 | #409 |
| Iowa | 9 | #370 | #577 |
| Nebraska | 6 | #373 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #377 | #246 |
| Michigan | 23 | #385 | #302 |
| Colorado | 15 | #401 | #519 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #416 | #253 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #425 | #259 |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #426 | #456 |
| Illinois | 25 | #431 | #352 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #436 | #266 |
| Ohio | 26 | #441 | #277 |
| Louisiana | 10 | #463 | #570 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #465 | #471 |
| Wisconsin | 11 | #474 | #344 |
| Texas | 66 | #492 | #700 |
| Missouri | 12 | #503 | #415 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #506 | #245 |
| Alabama | 10 | #514 | #376 |
| New York | 32 | #526 | #313 |
| Tennessee | 13 | #592 | #435 |
| Kentucky | 7 | #630 | #412 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 872 | #349 | — | — |
| 2024 | 948 | #328 | — | — |
| 2023 | 1,146 | #274 | — | — |
| 2022 | 1,191 | #265 | — | — |
| 2021 | 1,204 | #256 | — | — |
| 2020 | 1,172 | #259 | — | — |
| 2019 | 1,264 | #262 | — | — |
| 2018 | 1,280 | #255 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,429 | #216 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,237 | #259 | — | — |
| 2015 | 1,031 | #315 | — | — |
| 2014 | 955 | #348 | — | — |
| 2013 | 959 | #336 | — | — |
| 2012 | 899 | #353 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,011 | #313 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,075 | #301 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,700 | #192 | — | — |
| 2008 | 968 | #344 | — | — |
| 2007 | 817 | #400 | — | — |
| 2006 | 784 | #406 | — | — |
| 2005 | 741 | #418 | — | — |
| 2004 | 681 | #449 | — | — |
| 2003 | 706 | #426 | — | — |
| 2002 | 682 | #428 | — | — |
| 2001 | 585 | #476 | — | — |
| 2000 | 541 | #499 | — | — |
| 1999 | 423 | #584 | — | — |
| 1998 | 353 | #654 | — | — |
| 1997 | 308 | #701 | — | — |
| 1996 | 269 | #780 | — | — |
| 1995 | 227 | #858 | — | — |
| 1994 | 190 | #976 | — | — |
| 1993 | 178 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1992 | 189 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 1991 | 181 | #1,020 | — | — |
| 1990 | 159 | #1,102 | — | — |
| 1989 | 165 | #1,040 | — | — |
| 1988 | 142 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1987 | 136 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 1986 | 108 | #1,257 | — | — |
| 1985 | 130 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1984 | 146 | #991 | — | — |
| 1983 | 151 | #970 | — | — |
| 1982 | 164 | #920 | — | — |
| 1981 | 151 | #973 | — | — |
| 1980 | 149 | #992 | — | — |
| 1979 | 136 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1978 | 142 | #978 | — | — |
| 1977 | 149 | #934 | — | — |
| 1976 | 107 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 1975 | 94 | #1,224 | — | — |
| 1974 | 99 | #1,159 | — | — |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1972 | 91 | #1,186 | — | — |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 1970 | 63 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1968 | 44 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1967 | 56 | #1,503 | — | — |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,477 | — | — |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1963 | 43 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1962 | 47 | #1,663 | — | — |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1959 | 22 | #2,491 | — | — |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,927 | — | — |
| 1957 | 59 | #1,385 | — | — |
| 1956 | 68 | #1,265 | — | — |
| 1955 | 88 | #1,079 | — | — |
| 1954 | 48 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,082 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,407 | — | — |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,274 | — | — |
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).