girls:
389 births since 2005
#5327 (7th percentile)
overall:
389 births since 2005
#7350 (5th percentile)
The name Malaiyah is the #7,350 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 389 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 5.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,327 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 389 births since 2005.
Malaiyah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (first recorded for girls in 2005).
For girls, Malaiyah reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 4.5% percentile (ranked #915) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 27 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Malaiyah ranks #916 for girls (3.3% percentile) with 21 births per million, which is 76.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malaiyah".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Malaiyah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Malaiyah is pronounced as muh-LAI-yuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-LAI-uh, at 27.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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