Melaysia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- meh-LAY-zhuh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Melaysia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
Where does Melaysia come from?
Modern: modern coinage, perhaps Mel- with the ending -aysia
Is Melaysia a girl's or a boy's name?
Melaysia 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 Melaysia 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 Melaysia, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.
2025 had more girls named Melaysia than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Melaysia in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
Melaysia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 0 | – |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,245 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,120 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 9 | #10,861 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,300 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,575 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,193 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 5 | #17,288 |
| 2008 | 8 | #12,574 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,455 |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,401 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,589 |
| 2001 | 6 | #13,514 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 6 | #12,681 |
Names like Melaysia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Amoura, Kaliyah, Zariah, Zaniyah, Malaysia, Analia, Aria, Malaya, Sophia, Alaya, Jaliyah, Alessia
Names related to Melaysia
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, “Melaysia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/melaysia, updated 20 October 2026.