Malique

Last seen for girls in 2001 at #13,521 · #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time

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Peak · boys
1996 · 123 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
1,952
since 1989

Malique over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Malique has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank18801900192019401960198020002020peak #1,011, 1996boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#7,19411
2024#4,32124
2023#5,92715
2022#4,85020
2021#4,01126
2020#3,91826
2019#3,14337
2018#4,09425
2017#3,78128
2016#3,88327
2015#3,43132
2014#3,53230
2013#2,49249
2012#2,63246
2011#2,85241
2010#2,28756
2009#2,23159
2008#2,18661
2007#2,07166
2006#1,96768
2005#1,60385
2004#1,76371
2003#1,51385
2002#1,41492
2001#13,5216#1,254106
2000#1,30099
1999#1,47777
1998#1,017133
1997#1,065119
1996#13,5185#1,011123
1995#1,28683
1994#1,79548
1993#2,29533
1992#2,99922
1991#3,46217
1990#7,1786
1989#6,9416
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First appearance
1989

The first year at least five boys were named Malique! It came in at #6,941, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1989–1990, when fewer than 7 boys a year got the name.

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Momentum · boys
Falling
  • 2,873 spots since 2024 (#4,321#7,194)
  • 3,276 spots since 2020 (#3,918#7,194)
  • 3,763 spots since 2015 (#3,431#7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
7 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1989
  • Peaked 1996 at #1,011 (123 births)
  • Births halved by 2008, 12 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 14,371
  • Highest: 1 in 14,371 boys born in 1998 were named Malique (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,011 in 1996, was only 1 in 15,401 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
  • 40.6% of all boys named Malique (792) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1980s6#6,941 (1989)#6,941
1990s661#1,011 (1996)#2,359
2000s792#1,254 (2001)#1,730
2010s371#2,287 (2010)#3,213
2020s122#3,918 (2020)#5,037

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.

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