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

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Peak · girls
2011 · 210 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,894
since 1983

Malak over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202019peak #1,164, 2011peak #4,594, 2017girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,540137#5,39917
2024#1,664123#5,24118
2023#1,780114#6,22014
2022#1,601132#6,82812
2021#1,816111#6,69812
2020#1,494143#5,45116
2019#1,763116#8,8898
2018#1,554139#6,70312
2017#1,263187#4,59421
2016#1,365173#6,34913
2015#1,307182#6,67612
2014#1,376168#5,48516
2013#1,378169#7,02611
2012#1,413162#6,62612
2011#1,164210
2010#1,206200#8,1399
2009#1,272191#8,9858
2008#1,531151#9,0198
2007#1,655134#8,9158
2006#1,581136
2005#1,615125#10,1516
2004#1,554127#8,9277
2003#2,01989#7,2459
2002#2,41466#8,4567
2001#2,23672#10,5565
2000#2,67255#7,4168
1999#3,37437
1998#3,49734#6,8438
1997#2,82043
1996#4,05926#9,0155
1995#3,49231#6,9927
1994#3,70429
1993#6,26414
1992#5,48417
1991#7,98710
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First appearance
1983

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.

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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 124 spots since 2024 (#1,664#1,540)
  • 46 spots since 2020 (#1,494#1,540)
  • 233 spots since 2015 (#1,307#1,540)
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2011 at #1,164 (210 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,377
  • 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%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 43.8% of all girls named Malak (1,706) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s27#9,545 (1986)#10,424
1990s255#2,820 (1997)#4,681
2000s1,146#1,272 (2009)#1,855
2010s1,706#1,164 (2011)#1,379
2020s760#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

girls
#1,763
116 births · 1 in 14,469 girls
boys
#8,889
8 births · 1 in 224,277 boys

Top girls' names in 2019

  1. #1Olivia18,577
  2. #2Emma17,226
  3. #3Ava14,549
  4. #4Sophia13,821
  5. #5Isabella13,407
  6. #6Charlotte13,239
  7. #7Amelia12,944
  8. #8Mia12,508
  9. #9Harper10,497
  10. #10Evelyn10,443
  11. #1,763Malak116

Top boys' names in 2019

  1. #1Liam20,631
  2. #2Noah19,178
  3. #3Oliver13,967
  4. #4William13,658
  5. #5Elijah13,436
  6. #6James13,198
  7. #7Benjamin13,044
  8. #8Lucas12,483
  9. #9Mason11,484
  10. #10Alexander11,327
  11. #8,889Malak8
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).

Ranked beside Malak
  1. #1,755Maliya117
  2. #1,755Niyah117
  3. #1,755Presleigh117
  4. #1,763Malak116
  5. #1,763Cambrie116
  6. #1,763Donna116
  7. #1,763Lela116
  8. #1,773Anneliese115
  9. #1,773Clarke115
  10. #1,773Emmi115

Tied with 9 names at #1,763; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 1,081Amoura#2,059#978
  2. 553Theodora#1,406#853
  3. 456Navy#1,269#813
  4. 415Emani#1,371#956
  5. 403Yaritza#1,216#813
Fallers
  1. 451Emmarie#990#1,441
  2. 368Saniyah#934#1,302
  3. 252Tatiana#692#944
  4. 229Zhavia#879#1,108
  5. 219Jayden#979#1,198

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).

Ranked beside Malak
  1. #8,215Zylar9
  2. #8,215Zyrell9
  3. #8,215Zyrus9
  4. #8,889Malak8
  5. #8,889Aakil8
  6. #8,889Aarik8
  7. #8,889Aarohan8
  8. #9,756Aadhavan7
  9. #9,756Aagam7
  10. #9,756Aari7

Tied with 866 names at #8,889; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2018
Risers
  1. 5,830Sekani#6,703#873
  2. 5,230Ermias#5,770#540
  3. 654Amias#1,478#824
  4. 623Kyro#1,343#720
  5. 512Aziel#1,465#953
Fallers
  1. 376Jaxtyn#776#1,152
  2. 252Brysen#860#1,112
  3. 220Coen#814#1,034
  4. 219Chad#899#1,118
  5. 219Imran#933#1,152

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2019