Malyah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mah-LEE-ah
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #13,203 for girls
Malyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 13,203rd for girls in the US (6 babies).
Where does Malyah come from?
Modern: variant of Malia or Maliyah, styled like Aaliyah
Is Malyah a girl's or a boy's name?
Malyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Malyah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 13,203rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 270,000 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, 6 girls in the US were named Malyah, making it the 13,203rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 25 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.
2025 had fewer girls named Malyah than any year since 2007.
Half of all the girls named Malyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.
Malyah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,203 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,459 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,134 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,184 |
| 2015 | 17 | #6,974 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,480 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,230 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,452 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,610 |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,412 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,338 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 6 | #15,485 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,147 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,043 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,240 |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,095 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 6 | #12,420 |
Names like Malyah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Zaniyah, Zaliyah, Kaliyah, Aaliyah, Jaliyah, Aziyah, Hadassah, Kamiyah, Alaiyah, Naziyah, Jaziyah, Zariah
Names related to Malyah
Malia, Mylah, Maliyah, Malaya, Malayah, Maleah, Maliah, Mayla
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, “Malyah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/malyah, updated 20 October 2026.