Maleiyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- ma-LAY-a
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Maleiyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Maleiyah come from?
Modern: variant of Maliyah or Maleah
Is Maleiyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Maleiyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Maleiyah 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 Maleiyah, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 15,083rd. Its busiest year was 2010, with 14 girls. It first appears in the records in 2009.
Half of all the girls named Maleiyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 659 girls in the US were given Maleiyah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #479, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.
Maleiyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 5 | #15,288 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,192 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,300 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 5 | #15,083 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
| 2018 | 7 | #12,459 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 5 | #16,210 |
| 2015 | 11 | #9,476 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,251 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,267 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,423 |
Names like Maleiyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Aziyah, Alaiyah, Kaliyah, Naziyah, Zalayah, Kamiyah, Jaziyah, Maziyah, Jaliyah, Hadassah
Other spellings of Maleiyah
Names related to Maleiyah
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, “Maleiyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/maleiyah, updated 20 October 2026.