Malía
given name · Spanish · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Malía 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.
- 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 ◐
across 11 countries
7.6K records
Official registry-verified
Denmark
Spellings & scripts●
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled 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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| 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 | — | — |
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●
- Spanish8597%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Spanish | 85 | 97% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Evidence●
Attested in 4 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 7 | #4,546 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2021 | 3 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2020 | 3 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 2009 | 1 | — |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| IS Iceland | Mannanafnaskrá — official register of approved personal names | — | — | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 6 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malía?
- We estimate roughly 29 thousand people bear Malía (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malía have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 24 thousand people bear Malía in the United States, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Malía most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Malía is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 11 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- Is Malía a male or female name?
- Malía 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.
Query this name via API
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About this data
Data snapshot . 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, “Malía”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.