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
- Peak · boys
- 2020 · 144 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,083since 1997
Malikai over time
Rank among boys' names. Malikai 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,409 | 129 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,332 | 144 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,294 | 148 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,289 | 148 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,514 | 117 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,271 | 144 | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | #1,354 | 132 |
| 2018 | — | #1,593 | 103 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,518 | 109 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,799 | 84 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,895 | 77 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,098 | 66 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,113 | 63 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,983 | 71 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,203 | 59 | |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,942 | 73 | |
| 2008 | — | #2,039 | 68 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,473 | 51 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,285 | 55 | |
| 2005 | — | #2,325 | 50 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,238 | 51 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,443 | 26 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,685 | 35 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,476 | 17 | |
| 2000 | — | #8,209 | 7 | |
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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.
Where Malikai is popular in 2023
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#596 · 1 in 3,302
- North Carolina#807 · 1 in 5,072
- Virginia#947 · 1 in 6,208
- Indiana#960 · 1 in 6,321
- Washington#981 · 1 in 6,331
Best ever in a state: #476 in Oregon, 2022.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,302 |
| North Carolina | #807 | 10 | 1 in 5,072 |
| Virginia | #947 | 6 | 1 in 6,208 |
| Indiana | #960 | 5 | 1 in 6,321 |
| Washington | #981 | 5 | 1 in 6,331 |
| Texas | #1,056 | 21 | 1 in 8,448 |
| Georgia | #1,080 | 7 | 1 in 7,198 |
| California | #1,153 | 17 | 1 in 10,581 |
| Florida | #1,349 | 8 | 1 in 11,778 |
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See more about Malikai
- 77 spots since 2024 (#1,332 → #1,409)
- 138 spots since 2020 (#1,271 → #1,409)
- 486 spots since 2015 (#1,895 → #1,409)
- Debuted 1997
- Peaked 2020 at #1,271 (144 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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
- 39.8% of all boys named Malikai (830) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1990s | 6 | #8,110 (1997) | #8,110 |
| 2000s | 433 | #1,942 (2009) | #3,212 |
| 2010s | 814 | #1,354 (2019) | #1,902 |
| 2020s | 830 | #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 2023
Top boys' names in 2023
More about 2023
boys
1,710,576 boys got a published name in 2023; 1 in 11,558 of them was named Malikai, which outranked 90.9% of the 14,215 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,288Oakland149
- #1,288Tyrone149
- #1,288Zack149
- #1,294Malikai148
- #1,294Anson148
- #1,294Jael148
- #1,294Javion148
- #1,300Ean147
- #1,300Ewan147
- #1,300Francesco147
Tied with 5 names at #1,294; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.