Mala
9
Babies in 2024
+125%
10-year change
2020
Peak · 12
+125%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Mala
Mala is a rising UK girl's name. Registrations in 2024 (9) are up 125% on a decade earlier — one of the steeper climbs in the ONS data for England & Wales.
Mala reached its peak in 2020, when 12 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #2,163 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 9 represents 75% of the peak.
Across 26 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 157 girls have been officially registered with the name Mala in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 75 girls were registered with the name, starting from 4 in 2014 and ending at 9 in 2024.