Malik
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #14,558 · #437 for boys in 2025, 724 births
Given to boys 99.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 4,026 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 49,607since 1949
Malik over time
Rank among boys' names. 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 | — | #437 | 724 | |
| 2024 | — | #428 | 740 | |
| 2023 | — | #383 | 835 | |
| 2022 | — | #394 | 808 | |
| 2021 | — | #392 | 810 | |
| 2020 | — | #373 | 838 | |
| 2019 | — | #363 | 886 | |
| 2018 | — | #373 | 874 | |
| 2017 | — | #378 | 869 | |
| 2016 | — | #382 | 844 | |
| 2015 | — | #375 | 862 | |
| 2014 | #14,558 | 6 | #372 | 842 |
| 2013 | — | #341 | 940 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #340 | 913 |
| 2011 | #13,347 | 7 | #322 | 988 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #283 | 1,192 |
| 2009 | — | #255 | 1,359 | |
| 2008 | — | #280 | 1,218 | |
| 2007 | #10,818 | 10 | #273 | 1,255 |
| 2006 | — | #289 | 1,191 | |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #265 | 1,253 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #243 | 1,377 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #229 | 1,506 |
| 2002 | — | #211 | 1,659 | |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #197 | 1,864 |
| 2000 | #7,158 | 14 | #176 | 2,084 |
| 1999 | #7,239 | 13 | #165 | 2,246 |
| 1998 | #6,073 | 16 | #138 | 2,694 |
| 1997 | #5,626 | 17 | #111 | 3,381 |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | #97 | 4,026 |
| 1995 | #3,585 | 30 | #131 | 2,707 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #308 | 853 |
| 1993 | #10,588 | 7 | #331 | 766 |
| 1992 | #8,734 | 9 | #394 | 582 |
| 1991 | — | #521 | 368 | |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #557 | 328 |
| 1989 | — | #671 | 223 | |
| 1988 | #11,798 | 5 | #755 | 158 |
| 1987 | — | #735 | 154 | |
| 1986 | — | #806 | 127 | |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #798 | 124 |
| 1984 | — | #818 | 114 | |
| 1983 | — | #813 | 115 | |
| 1982 | — | #834 | 113 | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #760 | 131 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 | #665 | 168 |
| 1979 | — | #708 | 147 | |
| 1978 | — | #649 | 167 | |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #709 | 144 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | #706 | 139 |
| 1975 | — | #750 | 123 | |
| 1974 | — | #769 | 110 | |
| 1973 | #8,423 | 5 | #718 | 126 |
| 1972 | — | #692 | 134 | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | #719 | 132 |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | #732 | 126 |
| 1969 | — | #1,086 | 51 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,258 | 36 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,711 | 21 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,891 | 17 | |
| 1965 | — | #2,982 | 8 | |
| 1964 | — | #3,601 | 6 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,373 | 6 | |
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| 1949 | — | #3,690 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Malik! It came in at #3,690, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1949–1951, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Malik is popular in 1970
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#318 · 1 in 3,290
- New Jersey#345 · 1 in 4,614
- Pennsylvania#385 · 1 in 6,712
- Ohio#516 · 1 in 10,771
- Illinois#641 · 1 in 12,096
Best ever in a state: #6 in District of Columbia, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #318 | 47 | 1 in 3,290 |
| New Jersey | #345 | 12 | 1 in 4,614 |
| Pennsylvania | #385 | 14 | 1 in 6,712 |
| Ohio | #516 | 9 | 1 in 10,771 |
| Illinois | #641 | 8 | 1 in 12,096 |
| California | #648 | 16 | 1 in 11,148 |
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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 Malik
- 9 spots since 2024 (#428 → #437)
- 64 spots since 2020 (#373 → #437)
- 62 spots since 2015 (#375 → #437)
- Biggest jump: 354 spots in 1970 (#1,086 → #732)
- Biggest drop: 95 spots in 1981 (#665 → #760)
- Debuted 1949
- Peaked 1996 at #97 (4,026 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 1996
- Top 1,000: 56 yrs · run 1970–2025
- Highest: 1 in 471 boys born in 1996 were named Malik (0.21%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,359 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 36.2% of all boys named Malik (17,951) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 6 | #3,373 (1952) | #3,373 |
| 1960s | 139 | #1,086 (1969) | #2,088 |
| 1970s | 1,348 | #649 (1978) | #715 |
| 1980s | 1,427 | #665 (1980) | #766 |
| 1990s | 17,951 | #97 (1996) | #275 |
| 2000s | 14,766 | #176 (2000) | #242 |
| 2010s | 9,210 | #283 (2010) | #353 |
| 2020s | 4,755 | #373 (2020) | #401 |
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.
Malik in 1970
Top girls' names in 1970
Top boys' names in 1970
More about 1970
girls
1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 349,629 of them was named Malik, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,360 names at #7,995; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,858,229 boys got a published name in 1970; 1 in 14,748 of them was named Malik, which outranked 86.5% of the 5,433 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.