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Marlaysia

Gender
Girl
Say it
mar-LAY-zhuh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Marlaysia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

Where does Marlaysia come from?

Modern: blend of Mar- and Malaysia or Laysia

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

Marlaysia 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 Marlaysia 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 Marlaysia, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,964th. Its busiest year was 2015, with 20 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

2025 had fewer girls named Marlaysia than any year since 2009.

Half of all the girls named Marlaysia in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 20 in 20152025
Marlaysia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202412#8,438
202310#9,611
20228#11,225
20217#12,201
202013#7,964
201912#8,592
201813#8,142
20178#11,611
201615#7,599
201520#6,234
201419#6,449
201314#8,131
20129#11,251
20119#11,175
20106#14,953
20090–
20085#17,498
20075#17,630
20065#17,163
20059#10,915
20045#16,092
20030–
20020–
20010–
20009#9,867
19990–
19980–
19975#13,719

Names like Marlaysia

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