Malajah

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
5
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Malajah by the numbers

Malajah was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 24 babies in 2012, so it is a 2010s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Malajah

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Malajah. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Malayah244 in the US (2017)
  • Malaiah15 in the US (2017)
  • Malayjah8 in the US (2017)
  • Malijah5 in the US (2017)
  • Malikahqueen, sovereign female4 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Marayahvision of the lord; a form of Mariah11 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Malajah

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