Malikai

Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539 · #1,409 for boys in 2025, 129 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time

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Peak · boys
2020 · 144 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
2,083
since 1997

Malikai over time

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Rank among boys' names. Malikai has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201997boysat peak
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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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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,409129
2024#1,332144
2023#1,294148
2022#1,289148
2021#1,514117
2020#1,271144
2019#15,5395#1,354132
2018#1,593103
2017#1,518109
2016#1,79984
2015#1,89577
2014#2,09866
2013#2,11363
2012#1,98371
2011#2,20359
2010#2,46750
2009#1,94273
2008#2,03968
2007#2,47351
2006#2,28555
2005#2,32550
2004#2,23851
2003#3,44326
2002#2,68535
2001#4,47617
2000#8,2097
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First appearance
1997

The first year at least five boys were named Malikai! It came in at #8,110, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1998–1999, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Malikai
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 77 spots since 2024 (#1,332#1,409)
  • 138 spots since 2020 (#1,271#1,409)
  • 486 spots since 2015 (#1,895#1,409)
Rise & fade · boys
23 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1997
  • Peaked 2020 at #1,271 (144 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 11,558
  • Highest: 1 in 11,558 boys born in 2023 were named Malikai (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 13,241 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
  • Its best rank, #1,271 in 2020, was only 1 in 11,987 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2020s
  • 39.8% of all boys named Malikai (830) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1990s6#8,110 (1997)#8,110
2000s433#1,942 (2009)#3,212
2010s814#1,354 (2019)#1,902
2020s830#1,271 (2020)#1,352

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.

Malikai in 1997

boys
#8,110
6 births · 1 in 314,190 boys

Top boys' names in 1997

  1. #1Michael37,562
  2. #2Jacob34,163
  3. #3Matthew31,517
  4. #4Christopher29,108
  5. #5Joshua28,289
  6. #6Nicholas27,258
  7. #7Andrew25,208
  8. #8Brandon25,197
  9. #9Austin25,118
  10. #10Tyler24,879
  11. #8,110Malikai6
More about 1997

boys

1,885,140 boys got a published name in 1997; 1 in 314,190 of them was named Malikai, which outranked 25.0% of the 10,814 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Malikai
  1. #7,281Zoey7
  2. #7,281Zoran7
  3. #7,281Zyair7
  4. #8,110Malikai6
  5. #8,110Aaditya6
  6. #8,110Aaric6
  7. #8,110Aashish6
  8. #9,265Aadam5
  9. #9,265Aaran5
  10. #9,265Aarik5

Tied with 1,154 names at #8,110; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1996
Risers
  1. 1,420Jaret#2,145#725
  2. 712Kobe#1,265#553
  3. 580Ronaldo#1,465#885
  4. 420Jarett#1,334#914
  5. 416Gianni#1,093#677
Fallers
  1. 562Shaquille#662#1,224
  2. 373Dalvin#977#1,350
  3. 355Montel#990#1,345
  4. 328Codie#884#1,212
  5. 328Jair#884#1,212

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

See the top 100 for 1997