All over the world, מליה (Melia 
, Malia , מליה 
) is a common mostly girly, but uncommonly male first name. The first name מליה is characteristic of Guam, where it is quite a common feminine name, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare female name, and Indonesia, where it is quite a rare predominantly girly, but very infrequently male name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Indonesia, the United States, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Likewise, מליה is the last name as well as the forename.
מליה is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Malia Tate , the fictional character from the television series Teen Wolf; Melia , the Greek mythologial figure, daughter of the Titan Oceanus and consort of Apollo; Melia , the nymph in Greek mythology, consort of Poseidon; Melia , the operatic character in the opera Apollo et Hyacinthus by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Oebalus's daughter and Malia , the character from 2000 film 'Rip Girls', among other works.