Maliyah

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Maliyah: Recorded since 2002, its highest recorded position is #856, and it stood at #1,512 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
24times a registrar ranked it
24years from first to last
#856highest recorded position
6groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2025

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2003	#4373
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2007	#5201
2008	#5545
2009	#2326
2010	#1993
2011	#2150
2012	#2969
2013	#1075
2014	#1882
2015	#1865
2016	#1327
2017	#1628
2018	#1136
2019	#1349
2020	#1267
2021	#1007
2022	#1081
2023	#1135
2024	#1353
2025	#1512

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 23 of the 24 years from 2002 to 2025.

In 2023: #856 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #1135 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 2002–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2002
First recorded at #4137 among girls in England and Wales in 2002 — 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 #1512 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Maliyah 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 Maliyah in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	30	7 of 10	4
2010s	193	10 of 10	19
2020sbusiest	163	6 of 10	27

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 27 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2012 and 2013, when recorded births rose by 25, from 8 to 33.

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

Maliyah 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 2 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #856 in Republic of Ireland in 2023.

Maliyah'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
2025	England and Wales	female	#1512	20	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	female	#1353	24	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1135	29	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1081	31	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1007	34	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1267	25	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1349	23	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1136	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1628	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1327	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1865	15	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1882	15	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#1075	33	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#2969	8	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2150	12	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1993	13	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#856	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

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

Where Maliyah is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Maliyah, between 2002 and 2025, in 23 of those 24 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2002–2025	23	#1007 in 2021
Republic of Ireland	2023	1	#856 in 2023

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 2002 and 2025, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #856, first reached in 2023.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 34 births, registered in England and Wales in 2021.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2023, and 21 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.

Malique · #1322, 26y
Maliya · #1743, 16y
Malka · #1023, 30y
Malky · #1325, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 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.

Adara · #856, 24y
Aryanna · #856, 19y
Asra · #856, 26y
Bruna · #856, 23y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

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

Aryanna · #856, 19y
Bruna · #856, 23y
Defne · #856, 21y
Demir · #856, 22y

Maliyah was ranked #856 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 2023. 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.

Aarna#856
Abbey#856
Abigeál#856
Adalynn#856

Maliyah 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 2,577 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maliyah without appearing here.

Maliyah moved ahead of

Kristine
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #2969 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1075 and #5742.
Kai
In 2009 they stood at #2326 and #2326 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #5707.
Martine
In 2009 they stood at #5201 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #1993 and #5707.
Denise
In 2012 they stood at #2969 and #1720 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2013 that had become #1075 and #4739.

Moved ahead of Maliyah

Fiadh
In 2018 they stood at #1136 and #1436 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1349 and #1063.
Rory
In 2024 they stood at #1353 and #1603 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2025 that had become #1512 and #1271.
Eabha
In 2023 they stood at #1135 and #1169 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #1353 and #1262.

Moved the opposite way to Maliyah

Abigail
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 while Abigail went from #22 to #171.
Aimee
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 while Aimee went from #65 to #1809.
Aisling
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 while Aisling went from #513 to #1892.
Alex
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 while Alex went from #233 to #2605.

Moved the same way as Maliyah

Ada
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 and Ada from #2301 to #40.
Alma
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 and Alma from #2105 to #211.
Amelia
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 and Amelia from #25 to #3.
Aoife
Between 2002 and 2025 in England and Wales · Girls, Maliyah went from #4137 to #1512 and Aoife from #344 to #192.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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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 2 regions, from 2002 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #856 in Republic of Ireland in 2023. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maliyah

Maliyah at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maliyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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Maliyah at a glance

Maliyah by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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