girls:
29.8k births since 1919
#819 (86th percentile)
overall:
29.8k births since 1919
#1476 (81st percentile)
The name Malia is the #1,476 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 29,778 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 80.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 80.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #819 (85.7% percentile) for all time with 29,778 births since 1919.
Malia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (first recorded for girls in 1919). Birth data for Malia is available in 73 out of the 105 years between 1919 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, Malia reached its peak popularity in 2009, achieving the 80.7% percentile (ranked #186) with 839 births per million. The name was most common in 2009, with 839 births per million (ranked 80.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Malia ranks #259 for girls (72.7% percentile) with 654 births per million, which is 77.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Malia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Malia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 81.6% confident that Malia is pronounced as muh-LEE-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAH-lee-uh, at 18.4% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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