Malak

#1,540 for girls in 2025, 137 births · #5,399 for boys in 2025, 17 births
Given to girls 93.1% of the time

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Peak · girls
2011 · 210 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
3,894
since 1983

Malak over time

girlsboys

Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201983peak #1,164, 2011peak #4,594, 2017girlsboys
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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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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,540137#5,39917
2024#1,664123#5,24118
2023#1,780114#6,22014
2022#1,601132#6,82812
2021#1,816111#6,69812
2020#1,494143#5,45116
2019#1,763116#8,8898
2018#1,554139#6,70312
2017#1,263187#4,59421
2016#1,365173#6,34913
2015#1,307182#6,67612
2014#1,376168#5,48516
2013#1,378169#7,02611
2012#1,413162#6,62612
2011#1,164210—
2010#1,206200#8,1399
2009#1,272191#8,9858
2008#1,531151#9,0198
2007#1,655134#8,9158
2006#1,581136—
2005#1,615125#10,1516
2004#1,554127#8,9277
2003#2,01989#7,2459
2002#2,41466#8,4567
2001#2,23672#10,5565
2000#2,67255#7,4168
1999#3,37437—
1998#3,49734#6,8438
1997#2,82043—
1996#4,05926#9,0155
1995#3,49231#6,9927
1994#3,70429—
1993#6,26414—
1992#5,48417—
1991#7,98710—
1990#6,13114—
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1988#11,7985—
1987#9,8256—
1986#9,5456—
1985#10,6775—
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1983#10,2755—
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First appearance
1983

The first year at least five girls were named Malak! It came in at #10,275, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1983–1985, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Malak is popular in 1983

No state had 5 or more girls named Malak in 1983, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Malak
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 124 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,540)
  • 46 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,540)
  • 233 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,540)
Rise & fade · girls
28 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1983
  • Peaked 2011 at #1,164 (210 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 8,377
  • Highest: 1 in 8,377 girls born in 2011 were named Malak (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 11,732 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 43.8% of all girls named Malak (1,706) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Never flipped
  • The majority has never changed
all girlsall boys
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s27#9,545 (1986)#10,424
1990s255#2,820 (1997)#4,681
2000s1,146#1,272 (2009)#1,855
2010s1,706#1,164 (2011)#1,379
2020s760#1,494 (2020)#1,649

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.

Malak in 1983

girls
#10,275
5 births · 1 in 334,122 girls

Top girls' names in 1983

  1. #1Jennifer54,353
  2. #2Jessica45,283
  3. #3Amanda33,749
  4. #4Ashley33,289
  5. #5Sarah27,228
  6. #6Melissa23,475
  7. #7Nicole22,400
  8. #8Stephanie22,329
  9. #9Heather20,747
  10. #10Elizabeth19,842
  11. #10,275Malak5
More about 1983

girls

1,670,609 girls got a published name in 1983; 1 in 334,122 of them was named Malak, which outranked 14.9% of the 12,074 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Malak
  1. #9,015Yuriana6
  2. #9,015Zarah6
  3. #9,015Zola6
  4. #10,275Malak5
  5. #10,275Aaren5
  6. #10,275Abbagail5
  7. #10,275Abbye5

Tied with 1,799 names at #10,275; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1982
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,772Ciji#7,469 → #697
  2. ↑ 6,751Kirby#7,469 → #718
  3. ↑ 2,656Dwan#3,530 → #874
  4. ↑ 1,888Mallory#2,220 → #332
  5. ↑ 987Marquita#1,099 → #112
Fallers
  1. ↓ 656Syreeta#717 → #1,373
  2. ↓ 572Jenilee#817 → #1,389
  3. ↓ 538Tenika#947 → #1,485
  4. ↓ 396Toccara#541 → #937
  5. ↓ 333Venus#950 → #1,283

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

See the top 100 for 1983 →