Malka
#1,008 for girls in 2025, 248 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,500since 1946
Malka over time
Rank among girls' names. Malka has never cracked the top 900 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 | #1,008 | 248 | — | |
| 2024 | #984 | 264 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,055 | 237 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,098 | 227 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,122 | 220 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,241 | 183 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,280 | 181 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,249 | 186 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,160 | 212 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,140 | 222 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 180 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,333 | 177 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,362 | 171 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,639 | 131 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,574 | 139 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,398 | 169 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,453 | 161 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,406 | 152 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,593 | 123 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,577 | 112 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,551 | 107 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,656 | 95 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,819 | 78 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,675 | 89 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,873 | 70 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,802 | 69 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,273 | 42 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,092 | 45 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,705 | 26 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malka! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Malka
- 24 spots since 2024 (#984 → #1,008)
- 233 spots since 2020 (#1,241 → #1,008)
- 309 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,008)
- Biggest jump: 71 spots in 2024 (#1,055 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 24 spots in 2025 (#984 → #1,008)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2024 at #984 (264 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2024
- Highest: 1 in 6,137 girls born in 2024 were named Malka (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,481 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 27.0% of all girls named Malka (1,755) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 14 | #3,593 (1948) | #4,277 |
| 1950s | 110 | #2,699 (1953) | #3,731 |
| 1960s | 164 | #2,307 (1960) | #3,301 |
| 1970s | 353 | #1,996 (1976) | #2,351 |
| 1980s | 570 | #1,726 (1984) | #1,951 |
| 1990s | 856 | #1,551 (1998) | #1,767 |
| 2000s | 1,299 | #1,398 (2009) | #1,591 |
| 2010s | 1,755 | #1,140 (2016) | #1,350 |
| 2020s | 1,379 | #984 (2024) | #1,085 |
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.
Malka in 1946
Top girls' names in 1946
More about 1946
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1,571,305 girls got a published name in 1946; 1 in 314,261 of them was named Malka, which outranked 12.8% of the 5,686 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 726 names at #4,960; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.