# Maleah (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/maleah/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 9,426 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 9,426 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 91, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 471 | 614 |
| 2012 | 449 | 638 |
| 2013 | 461 | 610 |
| 2014 | 415 | 683 |
| 2015 | 337 | 834 |
| 2016 | 377 | 757 |
| 2017 | 366 | 760 |
| 2018 | 342 | 797 |
| 2019 | 424 | 684 |
| 2020 | 309 | 871 |
| 2021 | 310 | 880 |
| 2022 | 266 | 993 |
| 2023 | 223 | 1,102 |
| 2024 | 196 | 1,211 |
| 2025 | 187 | 1,215 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 12 | 2,019 |
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2012 | 3 | 5,876 |
| 2013 | 3 | 5,742 |
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 5 | 4,103 |
| 2016 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2019 | 7 | 3,151 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 8 | 2,942 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,927 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.