Maaliyah
Girl · ma-LEE-a · Hebrew
Maaliyah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
What does Maaliyah mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Maliyah, itself a spelling of Malia, the Hawaiian form of Mary
Spelling of Malia, the Hawaiian form of Mary.
- Say it
- ma-LEE-a
Meaning borrowed from Maliyah. More on Wiktionary.
Is Maaliyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maaliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maaliyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #13,203among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6about 1 in 270,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the US were named Maaliyah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2009, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 2000.
2025 had fewer girls named Maaliyah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Maaliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2016, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,520 girls in the US were given Maaliyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #233, up from #13,203 for this spelling alone.
Maaliyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,117 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 7 | #12,237 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 5 | #15,532 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,405 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 12 | #8,926 |
| 2014 | 17 | #6,985 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,252 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,204 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 19 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,225 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,069 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,535 |
| 2006 | 11 | #9,897 |
| 2005 | 8 | #11,828 |
| 2004 | 5 | #16,092 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,575 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,039 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 7 | #11,794 |
Names like Maaliyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Aaliyah Zaniyah Hadassah Taliyah Naziyah Zaliyah Kaliyah Aziyah Jaliyah Samiyah Kamiyah Zamira
Other spellings of Maaliyah
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