Malya
given name · French · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Malya is a given name, with more bearers in France than in any other country. It appears chiefly in French and Hindi, written in the Latin script.
- FRFrance1 in 27K◐
- YTMayotte1 in 2.7K
- MQMartinique1 in 8.6K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈2.8K ●
- Sources
- 91 ●
- 1 in 27K ◐
across 4 countries
1.6K records
Official registry-verified
France
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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | — | 2,490△ | 771 rec. | 1 in 27K | 2.5K | Malya | 91 |
| BE Belgium | — | 303 | 34 rec. | — | 26 | Malya | 7 |
| US United States | — | 301 | 411 rec. | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | Malya | 61 |
| IN India | — | 128 | 190 rec. | — | 138 | Malya | 16 |
| CA Canada | — | 104 | 5 rec. | — | 1 | Malya | 2 |
| MQ Martinique | #813 | 75 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Malya | 1 |
| GP Guadeloupe | #913 | 65 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Malya | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 43 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.9M | 43 | Malya | 1 |
| YT Mayotte | #435 | 20 | 0 rec. | — | 5 | Malya | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 17 | 31 rec. | — | listed | Malya | 10 |
| AU Australia | — | 17 | 18 rec. | — | — | Malya | 8 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 15 | 19 rec. | — | — | Malya | 12 |
Roughly 2.5K people in France bear this name (about 1 in 27K). 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●
- French8.7K48%
- Hindi5.9K32%
- English6574%
- 6103%
- Marathi4603%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| French | 8,729 | 48% |
| Hindi | 5,866 | 32% |
| English | 657 | 4% |
| 610 | 3% | |
| Marathi | 460 | 3% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Malya is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In nha, Negates nominals and verbs: no
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1918 | 1 |
| 1924 | 2 |
| 1925 | 1 |
| 1927 | 1 |
| 1928 | 1 |
| 1929 | 1 |
| 1930 | 2 |
| 1931 | 1 |
| 1932 | 1 |
| 1933 | 4 |
| 1934 | 1 |
| 1935 | 4 |
| 1936 | 3 |
| 1937 | 5 |
| 1938 | 5 |
| 1939 | 5 |
| 1940 | 3 |
| 1941 | 2 |
| 1942 | 2 |
| 1943 | 6 |
| 1944 | 2 |
| 1945 | 4 |
| 1946 | 6 |
| 1947 | 6 |
| 1948 | 5 |
| 1949 | 3 |
| 1950 | 5 |
| 1951 | 4 |
| 1952 | 2 |
| 1953 | 5 |
| 1954 | 6 |
| 1955 | 7 |
| 1956 | 3 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 12 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 4 |
| 1961 | 6 |
| 1962 | 5 |
| 1963 | 7 |
| 1964 | 4 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1966 | 11 |
| 1967 | 5 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 11 |
| 1970 | 13 |
| 1971 | 10 |
| 1972 | 10 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 8 |
| 1975 | 7 |
| 1976 | 6 |
| 1977 | 6 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 7 |
| 1980 | 6 |
| 1981 | 7 |
| 1982 | 6 |
| 1983 | 4 |
| 1984 | 7 |
| 1985 | 5 |
| 1986 | 8 |
| 1987 | 9 |
| 1988 | 2 |
| 1989 | 5 |
| 1990 | 7 |
| 1991 | 13 |
| 1992 | 6 |
| 1993 | 8 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 4 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 6 |
| 1998 | 3 |
| 2010 | 2 |
| 2011 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 80 years between 1918–2015. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Malya Hoareaub. 2006FRbadminton player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 31 sources across 21 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 279 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Malya?
- We estimate roughly 2.8 thousand people bear Malya (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Malya have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 2.5 thousand people bear Malya in France, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled malya.
- How common is Malya compared with other names?
- In Mayotte, Malya is the 435th most common given name of 1,095 given names recorded there.
- Is Malya a male or female name?
- Malya is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
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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, “Malya” — the 435th most common given name in Mayotte. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.