Maliyah

What Maliyah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maliyah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1994, with 21 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maliyah?

US: Falling: down from #434 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #1865 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2009, when 1,117 girls got the name (#295 that year). First in the US records in 1994.

How common

• About 1 in 3,442 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 12,664 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.5 per 1,000 girls), MD (1.0 per 1,000 girls), MS (0.79 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Maliyah is #626 in the US and #1512 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maliyah were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Malaya351 US · 17 E&W
• Malayah223 US · 7 E&W
• Maliya53 US · 8 E&W
• Malaiya34 US
• Milayah30 US · 4 E&W
• Maleyah24 US
• Malaiyah23 US
• Maleya15 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maliyah

Girls

• Aliyah#263“ascent”^*
• Aaliyah#101Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 18 babies
• Kennedy#85“head + ugly”^*
• Riley#48“rye + clearing, meadow”^*
• Reagan#248“descendant of Riagán”^*
• Rylee#137Variant of Riley, meaning “rye + clearing, meadow”^*

For a brother

• Jonah#128“dove”^*
• Elijah#7“Yahweh is my god”^*
• Wyatt#38“war + hard, brave”^*
• Noah#2Editor’s note Steady in the US: #1 in 2015 and #2 in 2025. About 1 in 84 US boys in the 2025 records
• Griffin#222Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #222 vs #1,035 in 2025
• Jackson#36Editor’s note Down from #17 in 2015 to #36 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 260 US boys in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maliyah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.