maLijA
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
maLijA is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 11Kas Malia(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 14Kas Malia
- SESweden1 in 103Kas Malia
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than maLijA itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 9 (measured from records)
- 1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
23,945 named Malia, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Malia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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
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)
maLijA 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 23,945as Malia | 1 in 14K | 24K | — | 7 |
| DK Denmark | 536as Malia | 1 in 11K | 536 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 526as Malia | 1 in 403K | 526 | — | — |
| ES Spain | 127as Malia | 1 in 394K | 807 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 99as Malia | 1 in 103K | 99 | — | — |
| FI Finland | 35as Malia | 1 in 159K | 51 | — | — |
| SI Slovenia | 6as Malia | 1 in 350K | 10 | — | — |
23,945 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SURS — resident population given names; stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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)
maLijA is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, pilsēta Grieķijā ("Μάλια"), Krētas perifērijā, 3700 iedzīvotāju (2011. g.)
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Mali, valsts Rietumāfrikā
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is maLijA a male or female name?
- maLijA is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does maLijA have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 24 thousand people named Malia, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is maLijA most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling maLijA itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 11 thousand people named Malia.
- How common is the name maLijA?
- In the United States, the national register counted 23,945 people named Malia in 2020, about 1 in 14 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/malijaThe 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, “maLijA”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.