Maliam
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Maliam is a given name, most frequently recorded in Thailand. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script.
- MWMalawi1 in 1.5K◐
- UGUganda1 in 74K
- TZTanzania1 in 80K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1 ●
- 2 ●
- Sources
- 32 ●
- 1 in 5.1M ◐
across 1 country
recorded for this name
531 records
Official registry-verified
Costa Rica
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled มาเลียม in TH Thailand.
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.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TH Thailand | — | 379 | 226 rec. | — | — | มาเลียม | 32 |
| MW Malawi | #157 | 279 | 0 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 4 |
| PH Philippines | — | 172 | 201 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 7 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | 165 | 14 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 8 |
| US United States | — | 36 | 46 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 7 |
| KE Kenya | — | 35 | 1 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 5 |
| ZA South Africa | — | 16 | 17 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 1 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 7 | 12 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 5 |
| UG Uganda | — | 7 | 3 rec. | — | — | Maliam | 5 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 1 | 0 rec. | 1 in 5.1M | 1 | — | 1 |
| UY Uruguay | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English37540%
- Swahili29131%
- Thai768%
- French374%
- Hindi364%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 375 | 40% |
| Swahili | 291 | 31% |
| Thai | 76 | 8% |
| French | 37 | 4% |
| Hindi | 36 | 4% |
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 2 sources across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 1 | #74,137 |
| UY Uruguay | Montevideo Open Data — Nombres por año y sexo (1940–2012) | 1980 | 1 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 2 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Maliam?
- We estimate roughly 1 people bear Maliam (counting its spellings and scripts) across 1 country in our records.
- In which country does Maliam have the most bearers?
- Maliam is most frequently recorded in Thailand, where it is most often spelled มาเลียม.
- How common is Maliam compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Maliam is the 157th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- Is Maliam a male or female name?
- Maliam 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
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/maliamThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use. Bulk access and licensing.
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, “Maliam” — the 157th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.