Malayia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- muh-LAY-uh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Malayia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
Where does Malayia come from?
Modern: modern variant of Malaya or Malaysia
Is Malayia a girl's or a boy's name?
Malayia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malayia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 36% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Malayia, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2013, with 30 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 4 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Malayia than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Malayia in the US since 1880 were born between 2008 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 50 girls in the US were given Malayia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,569, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
Malayia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,635 |
| 2022 | 18 | #6,459 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 20 | #5,982 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,886 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,043 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,849 |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,286 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,308 |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,643 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,573 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,145 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 29 | #4,930 |
| 2008 | 17 | #7,404 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,354 |
| 2005 | 12 | #8,878 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,319 |
| 2002 | 11 | #8,831 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,156 |
| 1999 | 5 | #14,403 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,579 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 0 | – |
| 1994 | 0 | – |
| 1993 | 6 | #11,773 |
Names like Malayia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Jaliyah, Zaliyah, Zayla, Hadassah, Kamiyah, Safa, Zariah, Aziyah, Zahara
Other spellings of Malayia
Names related to Malayia
More Modern names
Jayden, Ailany, Myla, Kayden, Nevaeh, Jax, Indie, Miley, Raelynn, Kaiden, Kehlani, Alayna, Caden, Zayden, Wrenley, Mya
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Malayia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malayia, updated 20 October 2026.