Malay
Malay reached its high-water mark in 2007 at number 7,733, and has been recorded 117 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 120 Malays are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 16.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Malay
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 117
- Estimated living today
- 120
- Median age today
- 16
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 7,733rd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 2005
How old the living Malays are
born that year still alive today
Of the 117 babies given the name since 2005, about 120 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2009 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 2007
The most popular girls’ names the year Malay peaked:
Related names
Malay against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.