Name meaning & stats
Malaya
Malaya means “calm” (Hawaiian origin). 8,467 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.
What it means
“calm”
HawaiianSpelling of Malia
In US birth records
Peak year: 2014
8,467 US babies were named Malaya between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Malaya (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 11 Malias spell it Malaya
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2014)