Maleia is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Maleia is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 3 out of 100,000 girls have been named Maleia. In the SmartGenius ranking, Maleia is #3,288 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maleia.
In fact, the name Maleia did not fit the trend of the last century. Young parents in the 2000s began to change that a bit. After several years of not being given at all (or less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), Maleia seemed to be more popular than ever in 2022. Although the name never ranked higher than #2,458, 62 parents chose it that year, making it a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Maleia, you are well on your way to becoming en vogue.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Maleia was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The first name Maleia is a true rarity among all women and girls currently living in the United States – only 138 Americans in total bear this name. And these 138 women are located in only five states: Alabama, California, Florida, Maryland and Texas (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 women with this name in the state. So, if your name is Maleia and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most girls and women named Maleia in relation to it’s female population is California. And yet even there, only one in 160,354 women would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Maleia.
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 six letters, the name Maleia is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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.
If your name is Maleia 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maleia, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Lion
Elephant
Igloo
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maleia
Maleia
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
L
E
I
A
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
L
E
I
A
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. Maleia sounds like this:
