Malak
#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 93.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 210 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,894since 1983
Malak over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,540 | 137 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #1,601 | 132 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,816 | 111 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #1,263 | 187 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #1,365 | 173 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 182 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #1,376 | 168 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,378 | 169 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,413 | 162 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #1,164 | 210 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #1,272 | 191 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,531 | 151 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #1,581 | 136 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,615 | 125 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #2,236 | 72 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malak! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Malak
- 124 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,540)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,540)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,540)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2011 at #1,164 (210 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,377 girls born in 2011 were named Malak (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 43.8% of all girls named Malak (1,706) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 27 | #9,545 (1986) | #10,424 |
| 1990s | 255 | #2,820 (1997) | #4,681 |
| 2000s | 1,146 | #1,272 (2009) | #1,855 |
| 2010s | 1,706 | #1,164 (2011) | #1,379 |
| 2020s | 760 | #1,494 (2020) | #1,649 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malak in 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 14,469 of them was named Malak, which outranked 90.2% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,755Maliya117
- #1,755Niyah117
- #1,755Presleigh117
- #1,763Malak116
- #1,763Cambrie116
- #1,763Donna116
- #1,763Lela116
- #1,773Anneliese115
- #1,773Clarke115
- #1,773Emmi115
Tied with 9 names at #1,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 224,277 of them was named Malak, which outranked 37.1% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,215Zylar9
- #8,215Zyrell9
- #8,215Zyrus9
- #8,889Malak8
- #8,889Aakil8
- #8,889Aarik8
- #8,889Aarohan8
- #9,756Aadhavan7
- #9,756Aagam7
- #9,756Aari7
Tied with 866 names at #8,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.