Malik
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558 · #437 for boys in 2025, 724 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 4,026 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 49,607since 1949
Malik over time
Rank among boys' names. 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 | — | #437 | 724 | |
| 2024 | — | #428 | 740 | |
| 2023 | — | #383 | 835 | |
| 2022 | — | #394 | 808 | |
| 2021 | — | #392 | 810 | |
| 2020 | — | #373 | 838 | |
| 2019 | — | #363 | 886 | |
| 2018 | — | #373 | 874 | |
| 2017 | — | #378 | 869 | |
| 2016 | — | #382 | 844 | |
| 2015 | — | #375 | 862 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #372 | 842 |
| 2013 | — | #341 | 940 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #340 | 913 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #322 | 988 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #283 | 1,192 |
| 2009 | — | #255 | 1,359 | |
| 2008 | — | #280 | 1,218 | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #273 | 1,255 |
| 2006 | — | #289 | 1,191 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #265 | 1,253 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #243 | 1,377 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #229 | 1,506 |
| 2002 | — | #211 | 1,659 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #197 | 1,864 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #176 | 2,084 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #165 | 2,246 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #138 | 2,694 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #111 | 3,381 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #97 | 4,026 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #131 | 2,707 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #308 | 853 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #331 | 766 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #394 | 582 |
| 1991 | — | #521 | 368 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #557 | 328 |
| 1989 | — | #671 | 223 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #755 | 158 |
| 1987 | — | #735 | 154 | |
| 1986 | — | #806 | 127 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #798 | 124 |
| 1984 | — | #818 | 114 | |
| 1983 | — | #813 | 115 | |
| 1982 | — | #834 | 113 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #760 | 131 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #665 | 168 |
| 1979 | — | #708 | 147 | |
| 1978 | — | #649 | 167 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #709 | 144 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #706 | 139 |
| 1975 | — | #750 | 123 | |
| 1974 | — | #769 | 110 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #718 | 126 |
| 1972 | — | #692 | 134 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #719 | 132 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #732 | 126 |
| 1969 | — | #1,086 | 51 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,258 | 36 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,711 | 21 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,891 | 17 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malik! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Malik is popular in 1986
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#256 · 1 in 2,860
- New Jersey#277 · 1 in 2,643
- New York#373 · 1 in 3,819
- Illinois#778 · 1 in 13,303
- California#1,189 · 1 in 25,367
Best ever in a state: #6 in District of Columbia, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #256 | 27 | 1 in 2,860 |
| New Jersey | #277 | 18 | 1 in 2,643 |
| New York | #373 | 32 | 1 in 3,819 |
| Illinois | #778 | 6 | 1 in 13,303 |
| California | #1,189 | 9 | 1 in 25,367 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Malik
- 9 spots since 2024 (#428 → #437)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#373 → #437)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#375 → #437)
- Biggest jump: 354 spots in 1970 (#1,086 → #732)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 1981 (#665 → #760)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1996 at #97 (4,026 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 1996
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1970–2025
- Highest: 1 in 471 boys born in 1996 were named Malik (0.21%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,359 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Malik (17,951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,373 (1952) | #3,373 |
| 1960s | 139 | #1,086 (1969) | #2,088 |
| 1970s | 1,348 | #649 (1978) | #715 |
| 1980s | 1,427 | #665 (1980) | #766 |
| 1990s | 17,951 | #97 (1996) | #275 |
| 2000s | 14,766 | #176 (2000) | #242 |
| 2010s | 9,210 | #283 (2010) | #353 |
| 2020s | 4,755 | #373 (2020) | #401 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Malik in 1986
Top boys' names in 1986
More about 1986
boys
1,841,515 boys got a published name in 1986; 1 in 14,500 of them was named Malik, which outranked 89.7% of the 7,830 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.