Malai was the #10,107 girls' name in the US in 2025 (9 babies).
Malai as a girl’s name
US
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list.Official rank; #1 at the top. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.Show the numbers
Year
US
2025
#10,107 (9)
2024
#9,556 (10)
2023
#9,616 (10)
2022
#9,056 (11)
2020
#6,629 (17)
2019
#9,736 (10)
2018
#12,464 (7)
2017
#9,341 (11)
2016
#16,215 (5)
2015
#10,866 (9)
2014
#10,955 (9)
2013
#10,235 (10)
2012
#14,962 (6)
2011
#16,764 (5)
2010
#10,451 (10)
The tide so far
Peaked in the US in 2020 at #6,629.
Falling over the last five years.
First recorded in the US in 2005.
How common is it?
about 1 in 170,000 baby girls in the published US list for 2025.
In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.