Maliyah

Where Maliyah comes from

Probably a fanciful spelling of Malia, from Hawaiian Malia.
— Wiktionary's entry for Maliyah
  • Hawaiian
Along the way
  1. 1994
    First appearance
    #4,687 among girls, 21 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2009
    Peak, #295
    1,117 babies named Maliyah — more than any year before or since.
  3. 2024
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #588.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hawaiian.
Namesakes

No widely known Maliyah 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.