Malea
Malea is a girl's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 2,041st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,722nd. About 2,500 Maleas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 20.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Malea
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,540
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 20
- Peak year
- 2009
- Best rank
- 2,041st
- Rank in 2025
- 5,722nd
- First recorded
- 1954
How old the living Maleas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,540 babies given the name since 1954, about 2,500 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,000 of them are children and 70 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2005 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.
Where Malea is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Malea is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Ohio (3.1×), Washington (2.7×), Pennsylvania (1.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2009
The most popular girls’ names the year Malea peaked:
Malea elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland girls | Malea | 2,207 | 9th |
| France girls | Malea +1 spelling | 25 | 5,781st |
| England and Wales girls | Malea | 23 | 3,985th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Malea: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Malea | 2,184 | 0.176% | 3rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Malea | 18 | 0.004% | 293rd |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Malea | 3 | 0.005% | 189th |
| Romansh girls | Switzerland | Malea | 2 | 0.054% | 9th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Malea is most concentrated in Thurgau, where 0.26% of children were given it – 146 of them.
Malea by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 122 | 104th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Related names
Malea against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
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.