Meaning not yet researched.
Maliah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 122 in 2025. Its best rank was #786 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #786 in 2013; #1,688 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maliah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,688 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #786.
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Maliah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 122 girls in 2025. Peak: #786 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 356 (2009).
In 2025, 122 US girls were named Maliah, making it the 1,688th most common girls’ name of the year, down 15 places from #1,673 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 123 girls named Maliah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #786, reached in 2013. The most girls given the name in a single year was 356, in 2009. For comparison, it was #925 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maliah in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1991 with 7 babies. In all, 5,394 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,921 babies named Maliah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,233 US girls were named Maliah; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 315. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,174 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maliah ranked highest in Kentucky in 2025, at #713 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), Maleah (9,426 babies since 1880) and Maliya (2,540 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahaliah 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: Mahaliah (5).
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 Maliah 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 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kentucky | 6 | #713 | — |
| Colorado | 6 | #868 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,034 | #720 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,042 | #717 |
| Florida | 14 | #1,093 | #512 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,345 | #1,425 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,534 | #918 |
| California | 15 | #1,542 | #1,281 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,147 | #1,108 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 122 | #1,688 | — | — |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 2023 | 202 | #1,194 | — | — |
| 2022 | 209 | #1,161 | — | — |
| 2021 | 210 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2020 | 223 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2019 | 283 | #934 | — | — |
| 2018 | 261 | #1,001 | — | — |
| 2017 | 285 | #930 | — | — |
| 2016 | 315 | #892 | — | — |
| 2015 | 297 | #925 | — | — |
| 2014 | 287 | #942 | — | — |
| 2013 | 347 | #786 | — | — |
| 2012 | 278 | #924 | — | — |
| 2011 | 289 | #904 | — | — |
| 2010 | 279 | #928 | — | — |
| 2009 | 356 | #795 | — | — |
| 2008 | 169 | #1,413 | — | — |
| 2007 | 143 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2005 | 82 | #2,234 | — | — |
| 2004 | 73 | #2,359 | — | — |
| 2003 | 79 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 2002 | 87 | #2,012 | — | — |
| 2001 | 59 | #2,587 | — | — |
| 2000 | 61 | #2,501 | — | — |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,226 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,542 | — | — |
| 1997 | 34 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1996 | 17 | #5,682 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,348 | — | — |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,414 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,178 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,487 | — | — |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,005 | — | — |
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).