girls:
726 births since 1992
#4990 (13th percentile)
overall:
726 births since 1992
#7013 (9th percentile)
The name Malasia is the #7,013 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 726 recorded births since 1992. This represents the 9.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,990 (12.7% percentile) for all time with 726 births since 1992.
Malasia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1992 (first recorded for girls in 1992).
For girls, Malasia reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #927) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 21 births per million (ranked 4.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2013, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Malasia ranks #945 for girls (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 19.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malasia".
These names exclude other spelling variations of Malaysia. View all variations of Malaysia.
These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Malasia", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 8 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Malaysia" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Malaysia..
Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Malasia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 66.7% confident that Malasia is pronounced as muh-LAY-zhuh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-LAY-shuh, at 12.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M AH0 L EY1 ZH 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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