Malya
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/məljə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Malya is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.
- FRFrance≈1 in 208K(inferred from the name graph)
- BEBelgium≈1 in 360K
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 361K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- France (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 96 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 208K (inferred from the name graph)
≈330 people, est.
Highest-authority source
France, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Malya counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | ≈330 est. | ≈1 in 208K | 2.5K | Malya | 96 |
| US United States | 301 | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | Malya | 67 |
| ID Indonesia | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 959K | listed | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 361K | listed | — | — |
| TZ Tanzania | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 522K | — | Malya | 15 |
| BE Belgium | ≈33 est. | ≈1 in 360K | 26 | Malya | 8 |
| NZ New Zealand | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 762K | — | Malya | 2 |
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: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns); the dz-kaggle-names register; the id-github-names register. 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Malya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nha, Negates nominals and verbs: no
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)
- Malya Hoareaub. 2006FRbadminton player
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 2024 | 2.5K | #204 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 301 | #29,411 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Prénoms nouveau-nés (newborns) | 2024 | 26 | #363 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| ID Indonesia | KPU voter-roll name tokens (GitHub) | — | — | — |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- How do you pronounce Malya?
- A machine transcription gives /məljə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Malya a male or female name?
- Malya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Malya have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 327 people named Malya in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled malya.
- How common is the name Malya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 301 people named Malya in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
What do you want to know about Malya?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malyaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Malya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.