Maliya
loc · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps the name of a dog, or it may be an adjective describing its colour’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/məliːjə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Maliya is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 186K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 351K
- NLNetherlands1 in 1M
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 43 (measured from records)
- 1 in 186K (inferred from the name graph)
1,785 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps the name of a dog, or it may be an adjective describing its colour.’ See J. iii. 535.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H)
Where in the world(measured from records)
Maliya 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 | 1,785 | 1 in 186K | 1.8K | — | 11 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | listed | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 17 | 1 in 1M | 17 | — | 1 |
| AU Australia | ≈10 est. | ≈1 in 2.6M | 1 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 6.8M | 3 | — | 1 |
| IS Iceland | 1 | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
1,785 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 26 sources across 15 countries.
Reference works 1
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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 Maliya?
- A machine transcription gives /məliːjə/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Where does the name Maliya come from?
- Perhaps the name of a dog, or it may be an adjective describing its colour.’ See J. iii. 535. Recorded by Dictionary of Pali Proper Names Vol II (N-H).
- What does the name Maliya mean?
- Recorded meaning: Perhaps the name of a dog, or it may be an adjective describing its colour.’
- In which country does Maliya have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.8 thousand people named Maliya, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Maliya most common?
- Maliya is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 186 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Maliya?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,785 people named Maliya in 2020, about 1 in 186 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/maliyaThe 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, “Maliya”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.