Maleeha
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-LEE-ha
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,217 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Maleeha is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “beautiful, charming”. In 2025 it ranked 1,217th for girls in the UK (28 babies) and 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Maleeha mean?
Arabic
“beautiful, charming”
From an Arabic word for pretty or charming, related to milh, salt.
Is Maleeha a girl's or a boy's name?
Maleeha is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 28 girls in the UK and 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maleeha in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 1,217th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 28 about 1 in 9,900 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steady down 8% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 28 girls in the UK were named Maleeha, making it the 1,217th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,587th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 39 girls.
2025 had more girls named Maleeha than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Maleeha in the UK since 1996 were born between 2006 and 2018. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.
In 2025, 86 girls in the UK were given Maleeha or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #498, up from #1,217 for this spelling alone.
- Maliha 58
- Maleeha 28
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,166th in England and Wales.
Maleeha in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #1,217 |
| 2024 | 19 | #1,662 |
| 2023 | 23 | #1,451 |
| 2022 | 23 | #1,452 |
| 2021 | 21 | #1,553 |
| 2020 | 20 | #1,587 |
| 2019 | 30 | #1,189 |
| 2018 | 26 | #1,335 |
| 2017 | 22 | #1,541 |
| 2016 | 28 | #1,291 |
| 2015 | 24 | #1,431 |
| 2014 | 39 | #1,002 |
| 2013 | 31 | #1,188 |
| 2012 | 32 | #1,150 |
| 2011 | 22 | #1,467 |
| 2010 | 32 | #1,112 |
| 2009 | 35 | #996 |
| 2008 | 38 | #929 |
| 2007 | 38 | #893 |
| 2006 | 36 | #896 |
| 2005 | 28 | #1,004 |
| 2004 | 28 | #990 |
| 2003 | 35 | #823 |
| 2002 | 24 | #1,016 |
| 2001 | 20 | #1,118 |
| 2000 | 8 | #2,097 |
| 1999 | 15 | #1,347 |
| 1998 | 8 | #2,110 |
| 1997 | 10 | #1,780 |
| 1996 | 10 | #1,741 |
How popular is Maleeha in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 14,937th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Maleeha, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Maleeha in the US since 1880 were born between 2001 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Maleeha in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 12 | #8,772 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 8 | #11,925 |
| 2013 | 15 | #7,744 |
| 2012 | 11 | #9,706 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,697 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,375 |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,472 |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,259 |
| 2003 | 10 | #9,666 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,438 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,717 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,574 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,338 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,527 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,012 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,509 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,552 |
Names like Maleeha
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa, Aaliyah, Hafsa, Hiba, Zainab, Abeeha, Rahma, Amira, Khadija, Halima, Safiya, Sumayyah
Other spellings of Maleeha
Names related to Maleeha
Maela, Maylee, Maleah, Malea, Maleia, Maleya, Maleehah, Maleyah
More Arabic names
Muhammad, Layla, Mohammed, Lyla, Mohammad, Zara, Amir, Fatima, Ali, Yahya, Zayn, Aisha, Omar, Zahra, Hamza, Kairo
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Maleeha: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maleeha, updated 20 October 2026.