Maleah

Where Maleah comes from

The dictionaries list Maleah as a given name — a female given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

Along the way
  1. 1956
    First appearance
    #5,325 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #594
    508 babies named Maleah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2023
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,098.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name.
Namesakes

No widely known Maleah turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.