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Maleyah

Maleyah is a girl's name that peaked in 2009, when it was the 3,512th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,238th. About 670 Maleyahs are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 11.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Maleyah

By the numbers

Total US births
677
Estimated living today
670
Median age today
11
Peak year
2009
Best rank
3,512th
Rank in 2025
5,238th
First recorded
2001

How old the living Maleyahs are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 677 babies given the name since 2001, about 670 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 600 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2014 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 Maleyah is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Maleyah is most concentrated in Florida (6.7×), California (2.3×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2009

The most popular girls’ names the year Maleyah peaked:

All the names of 2009

Related names

Maleyah 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.