Malaiyah
Girl · ma-LY-ah · Modern
Malaiyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 5,409th for girls in the US (23 babies).
Where does Malaiyah come from?
Modern: spelling of Malaiya; modern coinage, perhaps a variant of Malaya or Malia
- Say it
- ma-LY-ah
Meaning borrowed from Malaiya.
Is Malaiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Malaiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 23 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malaiyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #5,409among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 23about 1 in 70,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 7% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 23 girls in the US were named Malaiyah, making it the 5,409th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,646th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 48 girls. It first appears in the records in 2005.
Half of all the girls named Malaiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 57 girls in the US were given Malaiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,400, up from #5,409 for this spelling alone.
- Malaiya 34
- Malaiyah 23
Malaiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,409 |
| 2024 | 20 | #5,959 |
| 2023 | 36 | #4,045 |
| 2022 | 48 | #3,312 |
| 2021 | 32 | #4,322 |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,646 |
| 2019 | 32 | #4,342 |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,148 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 24 | #5,444 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,449 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,725 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,227 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 10 | #10,814 |
| 2006 | 5 | #17,163 |
| 2005 | 6 | #14,495 |
Names like Malaiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
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