Maliyah
#626 for girls in 2025, 467 births
- Peak · girls
- 2009 · 1,117 births
- Debut · girls
- 21 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 15,359since 1994
Maliyah over time
Rank among girls' names. Maliyah has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #626 | 467 |
| 2024 | #588 | 515 |
| 2023 | #531 | 572 |
| 2022 | #524 | 595 |
| 2021 | #527 | 586 |
| 2020 | #464 | 665 |
| 2019 | #408 | 766 |
| 2018 | #420 | 740 |
| 2017 | #395 | 790 |
| 2016 | #429 | 758 |
| 2015 | #434 | 728 |
| 2014 | #436 | 735 |
| 2013 | #389 | 799 |
| 2012 | #380 | 823 |
| 2011 | #351 | 912 |
| 2010 | #358 | 890 |
| 2009 | #295 | 1,117 |
| 2008 | #640 | 481 |
| 2007 | #762 | 384 |
| 2006 | #869 | 306 |
| 2005 | #853 | 296 |
| 2004 | #926 | 260 |
| 2003 | #827 | 296 |
| 2002 | #898 | 249 |
| 2001 | #1,111 | 190 |
| 2000 | #1,491 | 123 |
| 1999 | #1,828 | 87 |
| 1998 | #1,940 | 78 |
| 1997 | #2,045 | 69 |
| 1996 | #3,149 | 37 |
| 1995 | #4,217 | 24 |
| 1994 | #4,687 | 21 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Maliyah! It came in at #4,687, and was given to 21 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1994–1995, when fewer than 25 girls a year got the name.
Where Maliyah is popular in 2021
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#234 · 1 in 817
- Louisiana#271 · 1 in 1,034
- Kansas#289 · 1 in 1,053
- Alabama#316 · 1 in 1,192
- West Virginia#318 · 1 in 1,095
Best ever in a state: #69 in Mississippi, 2009.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi | #234 | 12 | 1 in 817 |
| Louisiana | #271 | 18 | 1 in 1,034 |
| Kansas | #289 | 11 | 1 in 1,053 |
| Alabama | #316 | 16 | 1 in 1,192 |
| West Virginia | #318 | 5 | 1 in 1,095 |
| North Carolina | #325 | 33 | 1 in 1,366 |
| Wisconsin | #334 | 16 | 1 in 1,342 |
| South Carolina | #368 | 13 | 1 in 1,363 |
| Idaho | #369 | 5 | 1 in 1,285 |
| Connecticut | #374 | 8 | 1 in 1,503 |
| Michigan | #376 | 24 | 1 in 1,597 |
| Georgia | #381 | 29 | 1 in 1,562 |
| Tennessee | #388 | 20 | 1 in 1,561 |
| Florida | #400 | 47 | 1 in 1,779 |
| Illinois | #422 | 26 | 1 in 1,862 |
| Missouri | #422 | 14 | 1 in 1,766 |
| Iowa | #436 | 7 | 1 in 1,670 |
| Nevada | #441 | 6 | 1 in 1,625 |
| Massachusetts | #455 | 12 | 1 in 2,071 |
| Maryland | #494 | 11 | 1 in 2,011 |
| Kentucky | #502 | 8 | 1 in 2,128 |
| Indiana | #512 | 13 | 1 in 2,183 |
| Pennsylvania | #528 | 20 | 1 in 2,439 |
| Texas | #537 | 60 | 1 in 2,591 |
| Ohio | #552 | 19 | 1 in 2,558 |
| Oregon | #568 | 6 | 1 in 2,290 |
| Virginia | #682 | 11 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Colorado | #689 | 7 | 1 in 3,162 |
| Oklahoma | #705 | 5 | 1 in 2,974 |
| New Jersey | #733 | 10 | 1 in 3,643 |
| Arizona | #746 | 8 | 1 in 3,467 |
| California | #767 | 42 | 1 in 4,155 |
| New York | #854 | 18 | 1 in 4,514 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Maliyah
- 38 spots since 2024 (#588 → #626)
- 162 spots since 2020 (#464 → #626)
- 192 spots since 2015 (#434 → #626)
- Biggest jump: 345 spots in 2009 (#640 → #295)
- Biggest drop: 99 spots in 2004 (#827 → #926)
- Debuted 1994
- Peaked 2009 at #295 (1,117 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 24 yrs · run 2002–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,645 girls born in 2009 were named Maliyah (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 3,442 girls born in 2025 (0.03%)
- 51.7% of all girls named Maliyah (7,941) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 316 | #1,828 (1999) | #2,978 |
| 2000s | 3,702 | #295 (2009) | #867 |
| 2010s | 7,941 | #351 (2011) | #400 |
| 2020s | 3,400 | #464 (2020) | #543 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Maliyah in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 2,800 of them was named Maliyah, which outranked 97.0% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.