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
- Peak · girls
- 2011 · 210 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,894since 1983
Malak over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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 | #1,540 | 137 | #5,399 | 17 |
| 2024 | #1,664 | 123 | #5,241 | 18 |
| 2023 | #1,780 | 114 | #6,220 | 14 |
| 2022 | #1,601 | 132 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #1,816 | 111 | #6,698 | 12 |
| 2020 | #1,494 | 143 | #5,451 | 16 |
| 2019 | #1,763 | 116 | #8,889 | 8 |
| 2018 | #1,554 | 139 | #6,703 | 12 |
| 2017 | #1,263 | 187 | #4,594 | 21 |
| 2016 | #1,365 | 173 | #6,349 | 13 |
| 2015 | #1,307 | 182 | #6,676 | 12 |
| 2014 | #1,376 | 168 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #1,378 | 169 | #7,026 | 11 |
| 2012 | #1,413 | 162 | #6,626 | 12 |
| 2011 | #1,164 | 210 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,206 | 200 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #1,272 | 191 | #8,985 | 8 |
| 2008 | #1,531 | 151 | #9,019 | 8 |
| 2007 | #1,655 | 134 | #8,915 | 8 |
| 2006 | #1,581 | 136 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,615 | 125 | #10,151 | 6 |
| 2004 | #1,554 | 127 | #8,927 | 7 |
| 2003 | #2,019 | 89 | #7,245 | 9 |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | #8,456 | 7 |
| 2001 | #2,236 | 72 | #10,556 | 5 |
| 2000 | #2,672 | 55 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #3,374 | 37 | — | |
| 1998 | #3,497 | 34 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,059 | 26 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #3,492 | 31 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #3,704 | 29 | — | |
| 1993 | #6,264 | 14 | — | |
| 1992 | #5,484 | 17 | — | |
| 1991 | #7,987 | 10 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,131 | 14 | — | |
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| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | — | |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | — | |
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| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
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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 2016
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Michigan#410 · 1 in 1,912
- Massachusetts#477 · 1 in 2,316
- Ohio#726 · 1 in 4,005
- New Jersey#761 · 1 in 4,064
- Virginia#917 · 1 in 5,305
Best ever in a state: #349 in Michigan, 2010.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #410 | 22 | 1 in 1,912 |
| Massachusetts | #477 | 11 | 1 in 2,316 |
| Ohio | #726 | 13 | 1 in 4,005 |
| New Jersey | #761 | 9 | 1 in 4,064 |
| Virginia | #917 | 7 | 1 in 5,305 |
| New York | #980 | 16 | 1 in 5,615 |
| Illinois | #1,182 | 8 | 1 in 7,203 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,261 | 6 | 1 in 8,642 |
| Florida | #1,345 | 9 | 1 in 9,634 |
| California | #1,583 | 16 | 1 in 12,732 |
| Texas | #2,563 | 7 | 1 in 23,899 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Malak
- 124 spots since 2024 (#1,664 → #1,540)
- 46 spots since 2020 (#1,494 → #1,540)
- 233 spots since 2015 (#1,307 → #1,540)
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2011 at #1,164 (210 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 43.8% of all girls named Malak (1,706) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 27 | #9,545 (1986) | #10,424 |
| 1990s | 255 | #2,820 (1997) | #4,681 |
| 2000s | 1,146 | #1,272 (2009) | #1,855 |
| 2010s | 1,706 | #1,164 (2011) | #1,379 |
| 2020s | 760 | #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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 10,243 of them was named Malak, which outranked 92.8% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 145,980 of them was named Malak, which outranked 55.3% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,053Zed14
- #6,053Zhane14
- #6,053Zymeir14
- #6,349Malak13
- #6,349Aaryn13
- #6,349Abdalla13
- #6,349Abdou13
- #6,726Aarib12
- #6,726Aashir12
- #6,726Aashrith12
Tied with 376 names at #6,349; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.