Malika
#2,691 for girls in 2025, 64 births · Last seen for boys in 2001 at #9,243
Given to girls 99.3% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1996 · 183 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,967since 1966
Malika over time
Rank among girls' names. Malika has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,691 | 64 | — | |
| 2024 | #2,819 | 59 | — | |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 | — | |
| 2022 | #2,277 | 82 | — | |
| 2021 | #2,327 | 78 | — | |
| 2020 | #2,078 | 88 | — | |
| 2019 | #2,109 | 89 | — | |
| 2018 | #2,275 | 80 | — | |
| 2017 | #2,236 | 84 | — | |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,092 | 54 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,304 | 80 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,804 | 61 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,159 | 52 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,013 | 38 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,995 | 58 | — | |
| 2007 | #2,787 | 65 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,978 | 57 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,787 | 59 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,396 | 71 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,925 | 94 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,046 | 84 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,686 | 107 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #1,649 | 107 | #10,349 | 5 |
| 1999 | #1,532 | 111 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,533 | 109 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #1,319 | 131 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #1,020 | 183 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,163 | 149 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #1,209 | 145 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,148 | 154 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,174 | 149 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,358 | 120 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,292 | 126 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,701 | 80 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,614 | 80 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,349 | 101 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,620 | 73 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,740 | 65 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,511 | 75 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,496 | 76 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,599 | 73 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,277 | 100 | — | |
| 1980 | #1,380 | 90 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #1,323 | 94 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,115 | 117 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,257 | 95 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,225 | 92 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,038 | 115 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,094 | 106 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,589 | 58 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,541 | 60 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,966 | 43 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,081 | 39 | — | |
| 1969 | #3,102 | 19 | — | |
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| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malika! It came in at #5,809, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1968, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Malika
- 128 spots since 2024 (#2,819 → #2,691)
- 613 spots since 2020 (#2,078 → #2,691)
- 401 spots since 2015 (#3,092 → #2,691)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1996 at #1,020 (183 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 9,579 girls born in 1996 were named Malika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 25,114 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all girls named Malika (1,377) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #3,102 (1969) | #5,238 |
| 1970s | 819 | #1,038 (1975) | #1,423 |
| 1980s | 813 | #1,277 (1981) | #1,529 |
| 1990s | 1,377 | #1,020 (1996) | #1,275 |
| 2000s | 740 | #1,649 (2000) | #2,526 |
| 2010s | 729 | #2,109 (2019) | #2,531 |
| 2020s | 459 | #2,078 (2020) | #2,391 |
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.
Malika in 1995
Top girls' names in 1995
Top boys' names in 1995
More about 1995
girls
1,758,548 girls got a published name in 1995; 1 in 11,802 of them was named Malika, which outranked 92.6% of the 15,753 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,903,701 boys got a published name in 1995; 1 in 380,740 of them was named Malika, which outranked 14.2% of the 10,330 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,462 names at #8,868; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.