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How popular is the name Maliha?
Births per year, rank history and how many Malihas are alive today.
Maliha (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 658th in 2025 with 58 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2011, when 69 babies were given the name, the 583rd most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1087 in 2023 before climbing back to the 658th place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years. Maliha is one spelling of a name also recorded as Maleeha; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Maliha you are most likely to meet is around 13 years old. Half of all Malihas born in England and Wales are between 8 and 20, and there are at least 2,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Maliha - on average, only one in every 158 such rooms contains a Maliha.
How many babies are named Maliha each year?
Includes all spellings: Maliha, Maleeha. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Maliha spelling rank?
Where does the Maleeha spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Maliha most popular?
Maliha peaked in 2014, when 101 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Maliha?
At least 2,000 people named Maliha in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Maliha?
Most living Malihas are between 8 and 20; the most common age is about 13.
Is Maliha becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.