Malia

loc · Latin script

Meaning: habitational name from a place called Malia or Mallia

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Malia is a name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia.

rarermore common
  • SASaudi Arabia

Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Saudi Arabia (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
365 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

habitational name from a place called Malia or Mallia.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Malia counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Malia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SA Saudi Arabia——Malia6
US United States—24K—365
FR France—3.8K—4
ES Spain—807—27
DK Denmark—536—16
BR Brazil—526—1

Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Malia is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Malïa, Mãlia, Mālīā, Mãlíã, Mālia

  • Portuguese given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, El Salvador, Argentina

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Malía, Malìa, Màlia, Mália, Mālia

  • Hindi name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Also written Mália

  • a separate name5 spellings in the group

    Also written Màlia, Malià, Mália, Malía

  • Indonesian surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia

    Also written Malia'

61 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Malia is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, ) Malie: weibl. Vom., Kurzform von Amalia (

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, A passerine bird endemic to Sulawesi, of species Malia grata.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Hawaiian, a female given name originating from the Bible

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Finnish, partitive singular of mali

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Italian, charm, enchantment

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19401960198020002020Malia Scotch Marmo, b. 1957June Malia, b. 1970Malia Jones, b. 1977Malia Metella, b. 1982Malia Arrayah, b. 1990Malia Obama, b. 1998Malia Berkely, b. 1998Malia Pyles, b. 2000Noelani Malia Day, b. 2003Malia Baker, b. 2006

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 91 sources across 50 countries.

Official registers attesting Malia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202024K#1,424
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)20243.8K#197
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000906#25,591
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020898#28,289
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025872—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010852#28,100
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—807#5,348
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—807#5,344
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—536#563
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022526—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—524#12,899
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020241—

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Malia have the most bearers?
Malia is most frequently recorded in Saudi Arabia, where it is most often spelled malia.
What does the name Malia mean, and where does it come from?
habitational name from a place called Malia or Mallia. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Malia”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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