Malia

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Malia: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Malia: Recorded every year since 2001, its highest recorded position is #331, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
30times a registrar ranked it
25years from first to last
#331highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2001–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2001	#2023
2002	#2540
2003	#2727
2004	#2530
2005	#1589
2006	#3116
2007	#2410
2008	#1815
2009	#982
2010	#1429
2011	#2636
2012	#1720
2013	#1484
2014	#2203
2015	#2070
2016	#1112
2017	#870
2018	#815
2019	#864
2020	#821
2021	#667
2022	#509
2023	#433
2024	#676

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2001 to 2024.

In 2024: #384 among girls in Scotland, #676 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 2001–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2001
First recorded at #2023 among girls in England and Wales in 2001 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Malia appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 2001, and has registered 689 births with the name.

Malia across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Malia's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#2023 (2001)	#433 (2023)	#676 (2024)	24 of 24	689 (2001–2024)	94 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#893 (2009)	#420 (2022)	#885 (2025)	4 of 17	20 (2009–2025)	9 (2022)

Malia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Malia in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	103	9 of 10	11
2010s	256	10 of 10	26
2020sbusiest	330	5 of 10	66

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 66 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 38, from 94 to 56.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Malia appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #331 in Northern Ireland in 2003.

Malia's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#676	56	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#433	94	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#509	78	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#667	58	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#821	44	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#864	42	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#815	46	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#870	44	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1112	31	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2070	13	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2203	12	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1484	21	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1720	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2636	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1429	21	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#982	33	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1815	14	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2410	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3116	6	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1589	14	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2727	6	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2540	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2003	Northern Ireland	female	#331	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#420	9	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	female	#893	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#384	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 2001 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #331, first reached in 2003.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 94 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2003, and 23 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Malgorzata · #109, 60y
Mali · #82, 49y
Maliah · #1556, 15y
Malick · #1744, 21y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jolie · #331, 29y
Cade · #330, 30y
Percy · #332, 26y
Hania · #333, 30y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Hailie · #331, 25y
Aobh · #332, 11y
Caila · #330, 9y
Tulisa · #330, 10y

Malia was ranked #331 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2003. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Malia and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Malia without appearing here.

Malia moved ahead of

Denise Compare
In 2012 they stood at #1720 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1484 and #4739.
Levi Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2070 and #2070 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1112 and #4096.
Pauline Compare
In 2008 they stood at #1815 and #1718 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2009 that had become #982 and #3936.
Kim Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2070 and #1961 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #1112 and #3609.

Moved ahead of Malia

Harper Compare
In 2009 they stood at #982 and #1171 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1429 and #930.
Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #864 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #821 and #460.
Blake Compare
In 2013 they stood at #1484 and #1587 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2203 and #2203.

Moved the opposite way to Malia

Abigail Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 while Abigail went from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 while Aimee went from #72 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 while Aisling went from #514 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 while Alex went from #172 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Malia

Ada Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 and Ada from #1520 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 and Alma from #1728 to #234.
Amalie Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 and Amalie from #3998 to #1128.
Amelia Compare
Between 2001 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Malia went from #2023 to #676 and Amelia from #32 to #2.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 2001 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #331 in Northern Ireland in 2003. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Malia

Malia at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Malia across 2 official records

Malia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Popularity data

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Malia at a glance

Malia across 2 official records

Malia by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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What the record shows

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Next in the catalogue

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Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Malia

Malia and the names beside it

Malia moved ahead of

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