How Many People Are Named Malayah?

4,339

people named Malayah are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 78,770 people in the US has this name

Based on 4,367 babies named Malayah in Social Security records from 1994 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#4,066

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#2,294

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Peak Year

2022

333 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Malayah in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Malayah alive today is about 9 years old, and 100% are under 30. Half of them were between 4 and 13 in 2025.

Under 30 4,334
99.9%
30 to 59 5
0.1%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Malayah first appears in the records in 1994 and was given most often in 2022, to 333 babies. In 2025, 223 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1994 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Malayah has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #842, in 2022. In 2025 it ranked #1,084.

Girls
Rank in 2025#1,084
Best rank#842 (2022)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#1,167 in the 2010s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Malayah alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Malayah were born in California than in any other state: about 413 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Malayah was given 2.6 times as often in Louisiana, 2.3 times in Mississippi and 2.3 times in South Carolina.

California 413
Texas 300
Florida 259
Illinois 227
Georgia 219
Pennsylvania 217
North Carolina 215
Michigan 205
Ohio 203
Louisiana 121
New York 114
South Carolina 99
Virginia 97
Tennessee 94
Maryland 86
Indiana 80
New Jersey 64
Alabama 61
Mississippi 58
Missouri 44
Wisconsin 37
Arizona 30
Kentucky 27
Minnesota 27
Oklahoma 20
Washington 10
Nevada 6
Kansas 5
Arkansas 5
New Mexico 5

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