Malikah
- #13,208 for girls in 2025, 6 births
- Last seen for boys in 2017 at #8,840
- Given to girls 91.9% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1977 · 43 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 949since 1968
Malikah over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #13,208 | 6 | — | |
| 2024 | #11,122 | 8 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | #10,383 | 9 | — | |
| 2021 | #7,630 | 14 | — | |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 | — | |
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | #10,689 | 9 | #8,840 | 8 |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,148 | 10 | — | |
| 2014 | #10,955 | 9 | — | |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 | #12,136 | 5 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #8,614 | 13 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #9,231 | 12 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | — | #12,491 | 5 | |
| 2008 | #10,807 | 10 | #6,393 | 13 |
| 2007 | #15,491 | 6 | #9,788 | 7 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #10,128 | 10 | #11,472 | 5 |
| 2004 | #9,264 | 11 | — | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #10,894 | 5 |
| 2002 | #6,392 | 17 | — | |
| 2001 | #7,724 | 13 | — | |
| 2000 | #6,808 | 15 | — | |
| 1999 | #6,836 | 14 | — | |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | — | |
| 1997 | #3,815 | 29 | — | |
| 1996 | #4,306 | 24 | — | |
| 1995 | #3,357 | 33 | — | |
| 1994 | #4,115 | 25 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,938 | 40 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,419 | 32 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | — | |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,308 | 20 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,923 | 12 | — | |
| 1986 | #4,028 | 20 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,455 | 17 | — | |
| 1984 | #2,677 | 34 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,975 | 28 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,375 | 41 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,603 | 36 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,187 | 45 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,350 | 38 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,162 | 43 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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| 1972 | #7,292 | 6 | — | |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1968
The first year at least five girls were named Malikah! It came in at #7,016, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Malikah is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Malikah in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 2,086 spots since 2024 (#11,122 → #13,208)
- 245 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #13,208)
- 3,060 spots since 2015 (#10,148 → #13,208)
Rise & fade · girls
9 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1977 at #2,162 (43 births)
- Births halved by 1982, 5 yrs later
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 35,655
- Highest: 1 in 35,655 girls born in 1977 were named Malikah (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 267,878 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1990s
- 28.1% of all girls named Malikah (267) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2010
- Mostly boys until 2009, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 12 | #5,974 (1969) | #6,495 |
| 1970s | 195 | #2,162 (1977) | #5,053 |
| 1980s | 235 | #2,375 (1981) | #4,059 |
| 1990s | 267 | #2,938 (1993) | #4,264 |
| 2000s | 102 | #6,392 (2002) | #9,692 |
| 2010s | 87 | #8,614 (2011) | #10,933 |
| 2020s | 51 | #7,630 (2021) | #11,161 |
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.
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