Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Malayah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malayah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Malayah” 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 “Malayah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Malayah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malayah” 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
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1997 6 0.000001655 6 100%
1998 12 0.000003262 12 100%
1999 6 0.000001624 6 100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 100%
2001 17 0.000004541 17 100%
2002 30 0.000008025 30 100%
2003 30 0.00000789 30 100%
2004 43 0.000011254 43 100%
2005 52 0.000013525 52 100%
2006 62 0.000015672 62 100%
2007 67 0.00001676 67 100%
2008 107 0.000027222 107 100%
2009 163 0.000042668 163 100%
2010 135 0.000036529 135 100%
2011 176 0.000048116 176 100%
2012 173 0.000047302 173 100%
2013 210 0.000057603 210 100%
2014 207 0.00005585 207 100%
2015 209 0.000056473 209 100%
2016 241 0.000065691 241 100%
2017 246 0.000068788 246 100%
2018 227 0.000064564 227 100%
2019 291 0.000083839 291 100%
2020 271 0.000081124 271 100%
2021 307 0.000090615 307 100%
2022 333 0.000098429 333 100%
2023 267 0.000080636 267 100%
2024 232 0.000069701 232 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Malayah:

  1. Malauni
  2. Malav
  3. Malavika
  4. Malay
  5. Malaya
  6. Malayah (this page)
  7. Malayasia
  8. Malaycia
  9. Malayha
  10. Malayia
  11. Malayiah