Malaika
- #2,326 for girls in 2025, 78 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 72 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,662since 1968
Malaika over time
Rank among girls' names. Malaika 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,326 | 78 |
| 2024 | #2,203 | 86 |
| 2023 | #2,466 | 72 |
| 2022 | #2,604 | 67 |
| 2021 | #2,384 | 75 |
| 2020 | #2,682 | 62 |
| 2019 | #3,085 | 52 |
| 2018 | #2,610 | 66 |
| 2017 | #2,546 | 69 |
| 2016 | #2,934 | 57 |
| 2015 | #2,773 | 63 |
| 2014 | #2,922 | 58 |
| 2013 | #3,076 | 53 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,796 | 62 |
| 2010 | #2,614 | 69 |
| 2009 | #2,852 | 61 |
| 2008 | #3,267 | 51 |
| 2007 | #2,647 | 69 |
| 2006 | #2,229 | 86 |
| 2005 | #2,379 | 74 |
| 2004 | #2,117 | 85 |
| 2003 | #2,321 | 72 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 |
| 2001 | #2,540 | 60 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 |
| 1999 | #2,854 | 47 |
| 1998 | #4,023 | 28 |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #3,285 | 34 |
| 1994 | #2,988 | 39 |
| 1993 | #3,158 | 36 |
| 1992 | #3,680 | 29 |
| 1991 | #4,808 | 20 |
| 1990 | #3,714 | 28 |
| 1989 | #5,545 | 15 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 |
| 1986 | #4,539 | 17 |
| 1985 | #6,457 | 10 |
| 1984 | #4,737 | 15 |
| 1983 | #4,476 | 16 |
| 1982 | #3,898 | 20 |
| 1981 | #4,005 | 19 |
| 1980 | #3,134 | 27 |
| 1979 | #2,931 | 29 |
| 1978 | #2,741 | 30 |
| 1977 | #2,463 | 35 |
| 1976 | #2,865 | 26 |
| 1975 | #2,278 | 36 |
| 1974 | #1,961 | 43 |
| 1973 | #1,570 | 59 |
| 1972 | #1,380 | 72 |
| 1971 | #1,640 | 56 |
| 1970 | #2,160 | 37 |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malaika! It came in at #5,147, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1969, when fewer than 9 girls a year got the name.
Where Malaika is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#564 · 1 in 2,670
- Indiana#815 · 1 in 3,987
- New York#2,075 · 1 in 15,666
- Florida#2,151 · 1 in 17,352
- Texas#2,386 · 1 in 20,068
Best ever in a state: #280 in District of Columbia, 1973.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Massachusetts | #564 | 9 | 1 in 2,670 |
| Indiana | #815 | 7 | 1 in 3,987 |
| New York | #2,075 | 5 | 1 in 15,666 |
| Florida | #2,151 | 5 | 1 in 17,352 |
| Texas | #2,386 | 8 | 1 in 20,068 |
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See more about Malaika
- 123 spots since 2024 (#2,203 → #2,326)
- 356 spots since 2020 (#2,682 → #2,326)
- 447 spots since 2015 (#2,773 → #2,326)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1972 at #1,380 (72 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 18,839 girls born in 2024 were named Malaika (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,606 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,380 in 1972, was only 1 in 21,128 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.6% of all girls named Malaika (681) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 15 | #5,147 (1968) | #5,561 |
| 1970s | 423 | #1,380 (1972) | #2,199 |
| 1980s | 174 | #3,134 (1980) | #4,611 |
| 1990s | 331 | #2,854 (1999) | #3,523 |
| 2000s | 681 | #2,117 (2004) | #2,536 |
| 2010s | 598 | #2,546 (2017) | #2,867 |
| 2020s | 440 | #2,203 (2024) | #2,444 |
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.
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