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Maleeah

Gender
Girl
Say it
muh-LEE-uh
Origin
Modern

Maleeah is a girls' name of Modern origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

Where does Maleeah come from?

Modern: spelling of Maleah; modern variant of Malia, or Mae with Leah

Meaning borrowed from Maleah. More on Wiktionary.

Is Maleeah a girl's or a boy's name?

Maleeah is a girls' name.

How popular is Maleeah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2013, with 23 girls. It first appears in the records in 2003.

Half of all the girls named Maleeah in the US since 1880 were born between 2010 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

2003Busiest: 23 in 20132023
Maleeah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20238#11,164
202216#6,979
202111#8,973
202013#7,964
201912#8,592
201811#9,146
20179#10,685
201622#5,794
20159#10,861
201416#7,300
201323#5,642
201215#7,800
201119#6,561
201016#7,510
200918#7,063
200812#9,472
200710#10,814
20067#13,601
20050–
20049#10,684
20036#13,837

Names like Maleeah

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

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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, “Maleeah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maleeah, updated 20 October 2026.