How popular is “Maleyah” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Maleyah” 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.

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

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

This chart shows how “Maleyah” 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.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Bias toward female
2001	7	0.00000187	7	100%
2002	9	0.000002408	9	100%
2003	11	0.000002893	11	100%
2004	6	0.00000157	6	100%
2005	9	0.000002341	9	100%
2006	10	0.000002528	10	100%
2007	18	0.000004503	18	100%
2008	33	0.000008396	33	100%
2009	46	0.000012041	46	100%
2010	43	0.000011635	43	100%
2011	40	0.000010936	40	100%
2012	46	0.000012577	46	100%
2013	44	0.000012069	44	100%
2014	37	0.000009983	37	100%
2015	32	0.000008647	32	100%
2016	41	0.000011176	41	100%
2017	33	0.000009228	33	100%
2018	34	0.00000967	34	100%
2019	28	0.000008067	28	100%
2020	23	0.000006885	23	100%
2021	24	0.000007084	24	100%
2022	30	0.000008868	30	100%
2023	26	0.000007852	26	100%
2024	22	0.00000661	22	100%

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