Malaki
Last seen for girls in 2011 at #16,764 · #1,256 for boys in 2025, 158 births
Given to boys 99.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2007 · 278 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,786since 1989
Malaki over time
Rank among boys' names. Malaki has never cracked the top 700 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 | — | #1,256 | 158 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,371 | 137 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,283 | 150 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,300 | 146 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,188 | 165 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,325 | 135 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,136 | 171 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,141 | 168 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,095 | 178 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,009 | 202 | |
| 2015 | — | #987 | 209 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,117 | 171 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,056 | 179 | |
| 2012 | — | #962 | 209 | |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #983 | 199 |
| 2010 | — | #841 | 251 | |
| 2009 | — | #867 | 242 | |
| 2008 | — | #906 | 229 | |
| 2007 | — | #783 | 278 | |
| 2006 | — | #806 | 253 | |
| 2005 | — | #791 | 245 | |
| 2004 | — | #925 | 183 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,093 | 141 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,098 | 133 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,400 | 89 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,196 | 45 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,031 | 27 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,191 | 24 | |
| 1997 | — | #3,351 | 21 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,185 | 15 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,407 | 8 | |
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| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
| 1991 | — | #7,271 | 6 | |
| 1990 | — | #8,117 | 5 | |
| 1989 | — | #7,905 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malaki! It came in at #7,905, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1993–1994, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Malaki is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Arkansas#536 · 1 in 2,706
- Kentucky#565 · 1 in 3,489
- Tennessee#596 · 1 in 3,551
- Oklahoma#674 · 1 in 3,764
- Alabama#738 · 1 in 4,524
Best ever in a state: #217 in West Virginia, 2008.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arkansas | #536 | 5 | 1 in 2,706 |
| Kentucky | #565 | 6 | 1 in 3,489 |
| Tennessee | #596 | 10 | 1 in 3,551 |
| Oklahoma | #674 | 5 | 1 in 3,764 |
| Alabama | #738 | 5 | 1 in 4,524 |
| Ohio | #787 | 10 | 1 in 5,731 |
| Missouri | #858 | 5 | 1 in 6,069 |
| North Carolina | #905 | 7 | 1 in 7,166 |
| Washington | #929 | 5 | 1 in 6,900 |
| Illinois | #973 | 8 | 1 in 7,459 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,093 | 6 | 1 in 9,544 |
| Michigan | #1,094 | 5 | 1 in 9,179 |
| Texas | #1,190 | 15 | 1 in 11,658 |
| Florida | #1,385 | 7 | 1 in 13,691 |
| New York | #1,767 | 5 | 1 in 19,148 |
| California | #1,869 | 8 | 1 in 25,814 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys 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 Malaki
- 115 spots since 2024 (#1,371 → #1,256)
- 69 spots since 2020 (#1,325 → #1,256)
- 269 spots since 2015 (#987 → #1,256)
- Biggest jump: 168 spots in 2004 (#1,093 → #925)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2011 (#841 → #983)
- Debuted 1989
- Peaked 2007 at #783 (278 births)
- Births halved by 2020, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 10 yrs · run 2004–2012
- Highest: 1 in 7,466 boys born in 2007 were named Malaki (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 10,811 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 40.5% of all boys named Malaki (1,937) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 5 | #7,905 (1989) | #7,905 |
| 1990s | 115 | #3,031 (1999) | #5,152 |
| 2000s | 1,838 | #783 (2007) | #1,087 |
| 2010s | 1,937 | #841 (2010) | #1,033 |
| 2020s | 891 | #1,188 (2021) | #1,287 |
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.
Malaki in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 10,810 of them was named Malaki, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,135Ulysses170
- #1,139Isiah169
- #1,139Neymar169
- #1,141Malaki168
- #1,141Ayven168
- #1,141Bernard168
- #1,141Cartier168
- #1,151Aayan167
- #1,151Kyren167
- #1,151Steve167
Tied with 9 names at #1,141; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.