Malaiya
Girl · ma-LY-ah · Modern
Malaiya is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,171st for girls in the US (34 babies).
Where does Malaiya come from?
Modern: modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Malaya or Malia
- Say it
- ma-LY-ah
Is Malaiya a girl's or a boy's name?
Malaiya is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 34 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malaiya in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #4,171among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 34about 1 in 47,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 3% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 34 girls in the US were named Malaiya, making it the 4,171st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,546th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 44 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Malaiya in the US since 1880 were born between 2012 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 57 girls in the US were given Malaiya or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,400, up from #4,171 for this spelling alone.
- Malaiya 34
- Malaiyah 23
Malaiya in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,171 |
| 2024 | 27 | #4,890 |
| 2023 | 23 | #5,386 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,961 |
| 2021 | 44 | #3,490 |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,546 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,259 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 23 | #5,620 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,890 |
| 2013 | 29 | #4,753 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,294 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,561 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,606 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,815 |
Names like Malaiya
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah Zaliyah Aziyah Kaliyah Zayla Zaiya Safa Amoura Alaiyah Jaliyah Hadassah Kamiyah
Other spellings of Malaiya
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