Meaning not yet researched.
Maliyah: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 467 in 2025. Its best rank was #297 in 2009.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #297 in 2009; #626 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maliyah in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#626 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2009, at #297.
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Maliyah: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 467 girls in 2025. Peak: #297 in 2009 · most girls in one year: 1,117 (2009).
In 2025, 467 US girls were named Maliyah, making it the 626th most common girls’ name of the year, down 38 places from #588 in 2024. That is 48 fewer than the 515 girls named Maliyah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #297, reached in 2009. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,117. For comparison, it was #435 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maliyah in 32 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1994 with 21 babies. In all, 15,359 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 7,941 babies named Maliyah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,454 US girls were named Maliyah; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 790. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,442 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maliyah ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #238 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 Maliya (2,540 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maleyah, Maaliyah and Maleeah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Maleyah (677), Maaliyah (306), Maleeah (262), Maleeyah (234), Maleiyah (128), Mahliyah (23), Malliyah (17), Maliayah (10), Maeliyah (5), Maleyiah (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 Maliyah 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 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 7 | #238 | #237 |
| Maryland | 20 | #263 | #516 |
| Louisiana | 11 | #412 | #384 |
| Mississippi | 7 | #426 | #236 |
| Connecticut | 7 | #437 | #483 |
| Georgia | 26 | #442 | #408 |
| Virginia | 18 | #453 | #350 |
| North Carolina | 24 | #466 | #472 |
| Alabama | 11 | #471 | #303 |
| Ohio | 22 | #499 | #380 |
| South Carolina | 10 | #507 | #333 |
| Wisconsin | 9 | #554 | #661 |
| Florida | 32 | #565 | #285 |
| Nevada | 5 | #570 | #391 |
| Pennsylvania | 19 | #573 | #311 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #600 | #504 |
| Colorado | 9 | #616 | #987 |
| Texas | 51 | #621 | #686 |
| Kansas | 5 | #648 | #443 |
| Iowa | 5 | #650 | #452 |
| Michigan | 12 | #671 | #433 |
| New York | 23 | #720 | #405 |
| Arizona | 9 | #732 | #1,045 |
| California | 40 | #772 | #479 |
| Illinois | 12 | #777 | #382 |
| Missouri | 7 | #781 | #370 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #797 | #346 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #800 | #376 |
| New Jersey | 8 | #901 | #600 |
| Indiana | 6 | #998 | #524 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 467 | #626 | — | — |
| 2024 | 515 | #588 | — | — |
| 2023 | 572 | #531 | — | — |
| 2022 | 595 | #524 | — | — |
| 2021 | 586 | #527 | — | — |
| 2020 | 665 | #464 | — | — |
| 2019 | 766 | #408 | — | — |
| 2018 | 740 | #422 | — | — |
| 2017 | 790 | #395 | — | — |
| 2016 | 758 | #429 | — | — |
| 2015 | 728 | #435 | — | — |
| 2014 | 735 | #436 | — | — |
| 2013 | 799 | #389 | — | — |
| 2012 | 823 | #382 | — | — |
| 2011 | 912 | #351 | — | — |
| 2010 | 890 | #358 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,117 | #297 | — | — |
| 2008 | 481 | #640 | — | — |
| 2007 | 384 | #763 | — | — |
| 2006 | 306 | #872 | — | — |
| 2005 | 296 | #855 | — | — |
| 2004 | 260 | #929 | — | — |
| 2003 | 296 | #827 | — | — |
| 2002 | 249 | #901 | — | — |
| 2001 | 190 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 2000 | 123 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1999 | 87 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,948 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1996 | 37 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,300 | — | — |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,775 | — | — |
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).