girls:
240 births since 1993
#5476 (4th percentile)
overall:
240 births since 1993
#7499 (3rd percentile)
The name Maleea is the #7,499 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 240 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 3.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,476 (4.2% percentile) for all time with 240 births since 1993.
Maleea first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993). Birth data for Maleea is available in 27 out of the 31 years between 1993 and 2023. 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, Maleea reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #945) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Maleea ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 30.5% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Maleea".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Maleea is pronounced as muh-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables.
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