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The first name 
Maaliyah

Maaliyah is a first name for girls.

Maaliyah – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a girl named Maaliyah in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Maaliyah in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 girls is named Maaliyah by her parents. In the ranking of most common girls names in recent years, Maaliyah ranks at #7,953. That means there are 7,952 more common girls names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maaliyah.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Maaliyah

Maaliyah -
at home in California and Florida

Meeting a woman or girl named Maaliyah is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Maaliyah can be found in only two: California and Florida. No other state currently has residents named Maaliyah. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Maaliyah living in one state or another (if your name is Maaliyah and you live outside of California or Florida, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Maaliyah is in Florida, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Florida, only 0.00010% of all female residents are named Maaliyah – that’s just one in 982,047! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 11 women with that name. So, if your name is Maaliyah, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Maaliyah has 8 letters 
and begins with an M

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.

With eight letters, the name Maaliyah is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.

Other names with 
M, a, a, l, i, y, a and h

If you take all the letters in the name Maaliyah – M, a, a, l, i, y, a and h – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Lamaiyah or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Maaliyah

If your name is Maaliyah and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Maaliyah

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maaliyah, you can simply say:

Mouse

Apple

Apple

Lion

Igloo

Yoyo

Apple

Hat

This is how the name Maaliyah is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Maaliyah in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Maaliyah

Maaliyah

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Maaliyah

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Maaliyah is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
A
A
L
I
Y
A
H

Have you ever waved the name Maaliyah

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

M
A
A
L
I
Y
A
H

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maaliyah sounds like this: