Meaning not yet researched.
Maliha: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 24 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,055 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,055 in 2009; #5,340 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maliha in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,340 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #2,055.
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Maliha: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 24 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,055 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 100 (2009).
In 2025, 24 US girls were named Maliha, making it the 5,340th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,166 places from #4,174 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 35 girls named Maliha in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,055, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 100. For comparison, it was #2,703 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maliha in 42 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1982 with 5 babies. In all, 1,424 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 642 babies named Maliha.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 419 US girls were named Maliha; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 57. In 2025 that was about 1 in 66,969 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Maliha 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 | 24 | #5,340 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,174 | — | — |
| 2023 | 42 | #3,689 | — | — |
| 2022 | 30 | #4,642 | — | — |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,533 | — | — |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,876 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 2018 | 49 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 2017 | 57 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 2015 | 66 | #2,703 | — | — |
| 2014 | 57 | #2,998 | — | — |
| 2013 | 74 | #2,453 | — | — |
| 2012 | 87 | #2,180 | — | — |
| 2011 | 93 | #2,082 | — | — |
| 2010 | 78 | #2,418 | — | — |
| 2009 | 100 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 2008 | 66 | #2,766 | — | — |
| 2007 | 42 | #3,833 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,602 | — | — |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,058 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,345 | — | — |
| 2002 | 23 | #5,205 | — | — |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,487 | — | — |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,916 | — | — |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,527 | — | — |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,254 | — | — |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,059 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,582 | — | — |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,349 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,932 | — | — |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,217 | — | — |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,205 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,357 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,333 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,467 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,918 | — | — |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,450 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,038 | — | — |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,886 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,544 | — | — |
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).