Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Malaia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malaia” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Malaia” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Malaia” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Malaia” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Malaia” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Malaia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malaia” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1997 5 0.000001379 5 100%
2003 5 0.000001315 5 100%
2004 7 0.000001832 7 100%
2006 18 0.00000455 18 100%
2007 24 0.000006003 24 100%
2008 13 0.000003307 13 100%
2009 16 0.000004188 16 100%
2010 17 0.0000046 17 100%
2011 24 0.000006561 24 100%
2012 14 0.000003828 14 100%
2013 6 0.000001646 6 100%
2014 14 0.000003777 14 100%
2015 10 0.000002702 10 100%
2016 7 0.000001908 7 100%
2017 8 0.000002237 8 100%
2018 17 0.000004835 17 100%
2019 30 0.000008643 30 100%
2020 35 0.000010477 35 100%
2021 40 0.000011807 40 100%
2022 24 0.000007094 24 100%
2023 34 0.000010268 34 100%
2024 26 0.000007811 26 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Malaia:

  1. Malahkai
  2. Malahki
  3. Malahn
  4. Malahni
  5. Malai
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  7. Malaiah
  8. Malaica
  9. Malaija
  10. Malaijah
  11. Malaika