girls:
292 births since 2000
#5424 (5th percentile)
overall:
292 births since 2000
#7447 (4th percentile)
The name Maaliyah is the #7,447 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 292 recorded births since 2000. This represents the 3.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,424 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 292 births since 2000.
Maaliyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2000 (first recorded for girls in 2000).
For girls, Maaliyah reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #937) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Despite a low point in 2015, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Maaliyah ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 30.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maaliyah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Maaliyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 45.9% confident that Maaliyah is pronounced as mah-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-lee-uh, at 43.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AA0 L IY1 AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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