Malaya Girl
How popular is Malaya?
#774 girl name in 2025
351 baby girls were named Malaya in the US in 2025, making it the 774th most popular girl name.
Malaya popularity over time
| Rank in 2025 | #774 for girls (▲ 39 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 351 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-10% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #725 in 2015, #667 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2014 (449 girls) |
| Highest rank | #633 in 2013 |
| First recorded | 1977 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Malaya counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Malaya family of names ranked #472 for girls in 2025 (#488 the year before), with 608 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Malaya | 351 | 58% |
| Malayah | 223 | 37% |
| Malaia | 28 | 5% |
| Malaiah | 6 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Malaya is most popular
Babies named Malaya per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- South Carolina: 0.7 per 1,000 (60 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.6 per 1,000 (29 girls)
- Louisiana: 0.6 per 1,000 (49 girls)
- Georgia: 0.5 per 1,000 (116 girls)
- Alabama: 0.5 per 1,000 (46 girls)
Malaya by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 23 | #5,530 |
| 1980s | 33 | #9,235 |
| 1990s | 225 | #2,809 |
| 2000s | 1,980 | #755 |
| 2010s | 3,907 | #633 |
| 2020s | 2,299 | #664 |
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Questions
- Is Malaya a boy or girl name?
- Malaya is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Malaya were girls.
- How popular is the name Malaya?
- 351 baby girls were named Malaya in the US in 2025, making it the 774th most popular girl name.
- When was Malaya most popular?
- Malaya peaked in 2014, when 449 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #633 in 2013.
- How many people are named Malaya?
- 8,467 babies have been named Malaya in the US since 1880. We estimate about 8,416 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 11.
- Where is Malaya most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Malaya was most common in South Carolina, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.