Mahalia
Mahalia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 50 births. Its best rank was 899th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 500.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 202065 births
- Best rank
- #899in 1880
- Since 1880
- 2,316people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,316 girls have been named Mahalia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2020, with 65 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1998, and the 2000s alone account for 19%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mahalia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 20 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 42 | |
| 1910s | 79 | |
| 1920s | 76 | |
| 1930s | 35 | |
| 1940s | 96 | |
| 1950s | 124 | |
| 1960s | 126 | |
| 1970s | 75 | |
| 1980s | 107 | |
| 1990s | 396 | |
| 2000s | 429 | |
| 2010s | 387 | |
| 2020s | 278 |
In 2020, its biggest year
Mahalia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2020 were Olivia, Emma, Ava, Charlotte and Sophia. See all of 2020.
Names that rose and fell with Mahalia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carolinepeak 2000
- Coralpeak 2004
- Phoebepeak 2024
- Halliepeak 2024
- Isabelpeak 2006
- Magdalenapeak 2007
- Calliepeak 2014
- Leanapeak 2010
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.