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Myliyah

Gender
Girl
Say it
my-LEE-uh
Origin
Modern
US rank, 2025
#8,360 for girls

Myliyah is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).

Where does Myliyah come from?

Modern: variant of Maliyah, or Myla with the -iyah ending

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

Myliyah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Myliyah in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,360th among girls
Babies in 2025
12 about 1 in 130,000 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, 12 girls in the US were named Myliyah, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,245th. Its busiest year was 2010, with 19 girls. It first appears in the records in 2001.

Half of all the girls named Myliyah in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2020, the years shaded on the chart below.

2001Busiest: 19 in 20102025
Myliyah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202512#8,360
20248#11,117
202312#8,481
20226#13,586
20219#10,287
20209#10,245
20198#11,350
201811#9,146
20178#11,611
20160–
201513#8,443
201413#8,480
201311#9,607
201210#10,424
20117#13,339
201019#6,638
20099#11,454
20089#11,594
20077#13,918
20068#12,415
20056#14,495
20045#16,092
20030–
20028#11,102
20015#15,345

Names like Myliyah

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