Malajah

girls:

235 births since 1998

#5481 (4th percentile)

overall:

235 births since 1998

#7504 (3rd percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Malajah is the #7,504 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 235 recorded births since 1998. This represents the 3.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,481 (4.1% percentile) for all time with 235 births since 1998.

Malajah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1998 (first recorded for girls in 1998). Birth data for Malajah is available in 21 out of the 24 years between 1998 and 2021. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.

For girls, Malajah reached its peak popularity in 2012, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #917) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 2012, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malajah".

1998 2021 19982021

Key Statistics

Total Births
235
Peak Births
25
Peak Year
2012
First Recorded
1998
Peak Percentile
2.1%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#917
Current Rank
Female statistics

How to Pronounce Malajah

Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Malajah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 27.0% confident that Malajah is pronounced as muh-LAH-juh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-LUH-juh, at 24.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.

muh-LAH-juh (3 syllables)
27.0% confidence
M AH0 L AA1 JH AH0
muh-LUH-juh (3 syllables)
24.3% confidence
M AH0 L AH1 JH AH0
muh-LAY-juh (3 syllables)
13.5% confidence
M AH0 L EY1 JH AH0
mah-LAH-juh (3 syllables)
13.5% confidence
M AA0 L AA1 JH AH0
ma-LAH-juh (3 syllables)
8.1% confidence
M AE0 L AA1 JH AH0
ma-luh-JAH (3 syllables)
8.1% confidence
M AE0 L AH0 JH AA1
MA-luh-juh (3 syllables)
5.4% confidence
M AE1 L AH0 JH AH0

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 L AA1 JH 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.

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