Malek
Last seen for girls in 2011 at #14,824 · #1,466 for boys in 2025, 121 births
Given to boys 99.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2023 · 151 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,086since 1974
Malek over time
Rank among boys' names. Malek 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 | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,466 | 121 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,426 | 128 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,271 | 151 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,523 | 118 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,503 | 118 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,390 | 125 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,372 | 130 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,625 | 100 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,695 | 93 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,663 | 95 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,001 | 72 | |
| 2014 | — | #1,619 | 96 | |
| 2013 | — | #1,754 | 83 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,602 | 97 | |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #1,780 | 81 |
| 2010 | — | #1,868 | 77 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,618 | 98 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,719 | 88 | |
| 2007 | — | #2,016 | 69 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,893 | 71 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,619 | 84 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,763 | 71 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,717 | 71 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,647 | 72 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,481 | 82 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,585 | 74 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,545 | 72 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,502 | 73 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,438 | 75 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,400 | 75 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,588 | 58 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,868 | 45 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,769 | 48 | |
| 1992 | — | #2,909 | 23 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,780 | 23 | |
| 1989 | — | #3,809 | 14 | |
| 1988 | — | #4,450 | 10 | |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #3,653 | 12 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #4,552 | 8 | |
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| 1982 | — | #4,593 | 8 | |
| 1981 | — | #4,961 | 7 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #3,810 | 10 | |
| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1976 | — | #4,935 | 6 | |
| 1975 | — | #5,464 | 5 | |
| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malek! It came in at #5,227, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1978, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Malek is popular in 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#571 · 1 in 3,614
- New York#735 · 1 in 5,197
- Pennsylvania#884 · 1 in 6,983
- Michigan#961 · 1 in 7,338
- Virginia#996 · 1 in 7,899
Best ever in a state: #416 in Kentucky, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | #571 | 11 | 1 in 3,614 |
| New York | #735 | 18 | 1 in 5,197 |
| Pennsylvania | #884 | 8 | 1 in 6,983 |
| Michigan | #961 | 6 | 1 in 7,338 |
| Virginia | #996 | 5 | 1 in 7,899 |
| California | #1,043 | 20 | 1 in 10,158 |
| Florida | #1,045 | 11 | 1 in 8,615 |
| Ohio | #1,256 | 5 | 1 in 11,314 |
| Illinois | #1,317 | 5 | 1 in 11,503 |
| Texas | #1,570 | 10 | 1 in 17,453 |
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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 Malek
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,426 → #1,466)
- 76 spots since 2020 (#1,390 → #1,466)
- 535 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #1,466)
- Debuted 1974
- Peaked 2023 at #1,271 (151 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,328 boys born in 2023 were named Malek (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,116 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 29.9% of all boys named Malek (924) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 31 | #3,810 (1979) | #5,042 |
| 1980s | 85 | #3,653 (1986) | #4,441 |
| 1990s | 505 | #1,400 (1996) | #2,103 |
| 2000s | 780 | #1,481 (2001) | #1,706 |
| 2010s | 924 | #1,372 (2019) | #1,698 |
| 2020s | 761 | #1,271 (2023) | #1,430 |
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.
Malek in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 13,802 of them was named Malek, which outranked 90.3% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,365Renzo131
- #1,365Truett131
- #1,365Zack131
- #1,372Malek130
- #1,372Ayman130
- #1,372Demarcus130
- #1,372Denim130
- #1,380Alessio129
- #1,380Arden129
- #1,380Armaan129
Tied with 7 names at #1,372; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.