Maliyah Girl
How popular is Maliyah?
#626 girl name in 2025
467 baby girls were named Maliyah in the US in 2025, making it the 626th most popular girl name.
Maliyah popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #626 for girls (▼ 38 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 467 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-36% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #434 in 2015, #464 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2009 (1,117 girls) |
| Highest rank | #295 in 2009 |
| First recorded | 1994 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maliyah counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maliyah family of names ranked #552 for girls in 2025 (#514 the year before), with 520 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maliyah | 467 | 90% |
| Maliya | 53 | 10% |
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 Maliyah is most popular
Babies named Maliyah per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 1.2 per 1,000 (55 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.8 per 1,000 (70 girls)
- Georgia: 0.7 per 1,000 (169 girls)
- Alabama: 0.7 per 1,000 (69 girls)
- Maryland: 0.7 per 1,000 (70 girls)
Maliyah by decade
Girl names about as popular as Maliyah
Questions
- Is Maliyah a boy or girl name?
- Maliyah is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maliyah were girls.
- How popular is the name Maliyah?
- 467 baby girls were named Maliyah in the US in 2025, making it the 626th most popular girl name.
- When was Maliyah most popular?
- Maliyah peaked in 2009, when 1,117 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #295 in 2009.
- How many people are named Maliyah?
- 15,359 babies have been named Maliyah in the US since 1880. We estimate about 15,266 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 12.
- Where is Maliyah most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maliyah was most common in Mississippi, at 1.2 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.