Malìa

Name: Malìa: recorded bearers, distribution and rank
Creator: Mondonomo
Published: 2026-09-12

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Malìa is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: The spoken form of Maria, the Hawaiian biblical equivalent of English Mary.

rarermore common

DKDenmark1 in 11K◐
USUnited States1 in 14K
FRFrance1 in 18K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

: ≈29K ●
Sources: 131 ●
: 1 in 11K ◐

Spellings & scripts●

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Malía in SV El Salvador, AR Argentina and Malia in BR Brazil.

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

Meaning & origin●

The spoken form of Maria, the Hawaiian biblical equivalent of English Mary.

Sources 4

Dictionary of American Family Names
The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Wiktionary
Nordic Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Malìa is recorded, by country
Country					Most common spelling	Sources
US United States	23,888△	3.4K rec.	1 in 14K	24K	—	131
FR France	3,760	0 rec.	1 in 18K	3.8K	—	1
DK Denmark	536	—	1 in 11K	536	—	—
BR Brazil	526△	184 rec.	1 in 403K	526	Malia	34
ES Spain	127	820 rec.	1 in 394K	807	—	53
SE Sweden	99	—	1 in 103K	99	—	—
SV El Salvador	46	1.2K rec.	—	—	Malía	8
PL Poland	42	—	1 in 911K	42	—	—
AR Argentina	40	493 rec.	—	14	Malía	24
FI Finland	35△	1 rec.	1 in 159K	51	—	1
IS Iceland	7	—	1 in 50K	7	—	—
SI Slovenia	6	—	1 in 350K	10	—	—
MD Moldova	6	—	1 in 561K	6	—	—
AT Austria	—	—	—	423	—	—
IN India	—	15 rec.	—	210	—	5
NO Norway	—	—	—	208	—	—
CH Switzerland	—	3 rec.	—	137	—	2
BE Belgium	—	2 rec.	—	49	—	3
NZ New Zealand	—	17 rec.	—	39	—	9
NL Netherlands	—	7 rec.	—	37	—	3
CA Canada	—	83 rec.	—	13	—	6
IT Italy	—	19 rec.	—	13	—	5
GB United Kingdom	—	111 rec.	—	8	—	14
PR Puerto Rico	—	7 rec.	—	7	—	2
EC Ecuador	—	1 rec.	—	7	—	6
XK Kosovo	—	—	—	6	—	—
CL Chile	—	36 rec.	—	6	—	15
MQ Martinique	—	—	—	5	—	—
GP Guadeloupe	—	—	—	5	—	—
GF French Guiana	—	—	—	5	—	—

Roughly 24K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 14K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

Spanish583%

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Languages in which the name is recorded
Name	Records	Note
Spanish	5	83%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Malìa is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

Arabic name1 records spelled Malìa20 spellings in the group
Most recorded in Saudi Arabia
Languages: Arabic, English
Also written Malia, Måliå, Mālia, Maliä, Malïa

1 further group 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.

Evidence●

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Malìa under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Malìa?: We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Malìa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Malìa have the most bearers?: We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Malìa in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
Where is Malìa most common?: Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malìa is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
Is Malìa a male or female name?: Malìa 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.
What does the name Malìa mean?: Recorded meaning: The spoken form of Maria, the Hawaiian biblical equivalent of English Mary.

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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot 2026-09-12. Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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, “Malìa”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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