Malayah Girl
How popular is Malayah?
#1,082 girl name in 2025
223 baby girls were named Malayah in the US in 2025, making it the 1082nd most popular girl name.
Malayah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #1,082 for girls (▼ 16 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 223 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (+7% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,199 in 2015, #942 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (333 girls) |
| Highest rank | #840 in 2022 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Malayah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Malaya family of names ranked #472 for girls in 2025 (#488 the year before), with 608 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Malaya | 351 | 58% |
| Malayah | 223 | 37% |
| Malaia | 28 | 5% |
| Malaiah | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Malayah is most popular
Babies named Malayah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 0.6 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.4 per 1,000 (39 girls)
- Michigan: 0.4 per 1,000 (72 girls)
- Georgia: 0.4 per 1,000 (89 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.4 per 1,000 (31 girls)
Malayah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Malayah
Questions
- Is Malayah a boy or girl name?
- Malayah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Malayah were girls.
- How popular is the name Malayah?
- 223 baby girls were named Malayah in the US in 2025, making it the 1082nd most popular girl name.
- When was Malayah most popular?
- Malayah peaked in 2022, when 333 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #840 in 2022.
- How many people are named Malayah?
- 4,367 babies have been named Malayah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 4,345 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Malayah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Malayah was most common in Mississippi, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.