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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Malia” in the USA?

Number of people named “Malia” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Malia” by birth year

This chart shows how “Malia” 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
1919 5 0.000002369 5 100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 100%
1954 48 0.000012058 48 100%
1955 88 0.000021917 88 100%
1956 68 0.000016493 68 100%
1957 59 0.00001404 59 100%
1958 33 0.000007983 33 100%
1959 22 0.000005291 22 100%
1960 32 0.000007704 32 100%
1961 28 0.00000676 28 100%
1962 47 0.000011647 47 100%
1963 43 0.000010864 43 100%
1964 37 0.000009517 37 100%
1965 57 0.000015722 57 100%
1966 41 0.000011796 41 100%
1967 56 0.000016495 56 100%
1968 44 0.000013024 44 100%
1969 64 0.000018416 64 100%
1970 63 0.000017468 63 100%
1971 69 0.000020103 69 100%
1972 91 0.000028953 91 100%
1973 77 0.000025523 77 100%
1974 99 0.000032566 99 100%
1975 94 0.000031132 94 100%
1976 107 0.000035263 107 100%
1977 149 0.000046907 149 100%
1978 142 0.00004474 142 100%
1979 136 0.000040878 136 100%
1980 149 0.000043257 149 100%
1981 151 0.00004365 151 100%
1982 164 0.000046751 164 100%
1983 151 0.0000436 151 100%
1984 146 0.000041849 146 100%
1985 130 0.000036424 130 100%
1986 108 0.000030362 108 100%
1987 136 0.000037719 136 100%
1988 142 0.00003843 142 100%
1989 165 0.000042919 165 100%
1990 159 0.000040228 159 100%
1991 181 0.000046467 181 100%
1992 189 0.000049202 189 100%
1993 178 0.000047211 178 100%
1994 190 0.000051108 190 100%
1995 227 0.000061985 227 100%
1996 269 0.000073755 269 100%
1997 308 0.000084948 308 100%
1998 353 0.000095971 353 100%
1999 423 0.000114514 423 100%
2000 541 0.000143125 541 100%
2001 585 0.000156275 585 100%
2002 682 0.000182436 682 100%
2003 706 0.000185676 706 100%
2004 681 0.000178229 681 100%
2005 741 0.000192726 741 100%
2006 784 0.000198171 784 100%
2007 817 0.000204368 817 100%
2008 968 0.000246269 968 100%
2009 1700 0.000445006 1700 100%
2010 1075 0.000290876 1075 100%
2011 1011 0.000276396 1011 100%
2012 899 0.000245805 899 100%
2013 959 0.000263052 959 100%
2014 955 0.000257664 955 100%
2015 1031 0.00027858 1031 100%
2016 1236 0.000336904 1236 100%
2017 1429 0.000399587 1429 100%
2018 1279 0.000363776 1279 100%
2019 1264 0.000364167 1264 100%
2020 1171 0.000350538 1171 100%
2021 1204 0.000355377 1204 100%
2022 1191 0.00035204 1191 100%
2023 1146 0.000346099 1146 100%
2024 946 0.000284212 946 100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Malia:

  1. Maleyna
  2. Malford
  3. Malgorzata
  4. Malhar
  5. Mali
  6. Malia (this page)
  7. Maliah
  8. Maliak
  9. Maliaka
  10. Malialani
  11. Malian