Malka
#1,008 for girls in 2025, 248 births · Last seen for boys in 2012 at #12,274
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2024 · 264 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,500since 1946
Malka over time
Rank among girls' names. Malka has never cracked the top 900 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 | #1,008 | 248 | — | |
| 2024 | #984 | 264 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,055 | 237 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,098 | 227 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,122 | 220 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,241 | 183 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,280 | 181 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,249 | 186 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,160 | 212 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,140 | 222 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,317 | 180 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,333 | 177 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,362 | 171 | — | |
| 2012 | #1,639 | 131 | #12,274 | 5 |
| 2011 | #1,446 | 156 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,574 | 139 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,398 | 169 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,762 | 125 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,453 | 161 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,691 | 124 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,406 | 152 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,593 | 123 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,652 | 116 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,560 | 119 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,577 | 112 | — | |
| 1999 | #1,667 | 99 | — | |
| 1998 | #1,551 | 107 | — | |
| 1997 | #1,656 | 95 | — | |
| 1996 | #1,583 | 98 | — | |
| 1995 | #1,819 | 78 | — | |
| 1994 | #1,675 | 89 | — | |
| 1993 | #2,127 | 63 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,908 | 73 | — | |
| 1991 | #1,857 | 76 | — | |
| 1990 | #1,828 | 78 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,873 | 70 | — | |
| 1988 | #1,802 | 69 | — | |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,025 | 53 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,021 | 53 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 | — | |
| 1983 | #2,022 | 50 | — | |
| 1982 | #2,050 | 50 | — | |
| 1981 | #2,085 | 49 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,096 | 49 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,273 | 42 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,092 | 45 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,257 | 40 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,357 | 34 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,213 | 36 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,455 | 30 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,680 | 26 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,705 | 26 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 | — | |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 | — | |
| 1964 | #3,244 | 16 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,635 | 13 | — | |
| 1962 | #3,293 | 15 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,752 | 20 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,980 | 16 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,543 | 12 | — | |
| 1957 | #4,536 | 8 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 | — | |
| 1955 | #5,828 | 5 | — | |
| 1954 | #3,157 | 13 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 | — | |
| 1952 | #4,123 | 8 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,235 | 11 | — | |
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| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 | — | |
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| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Malka! It came in at #4,960, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1946–1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Malka is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#242 · 1 in 1,106
- New York#242 · 1 in 1,168
Best ever in a state: #56 in New Jersey, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #242 | 33 | 1 in 1,106 |
| New York | #242 | 79 | 1 in 1,168 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls 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 Malka
- 24 spots since 2024 (#984 → #1,008)
- 233 spots since 2020 (#1,241 → #1,008)
- 309 spots since 2015 (#1,317 → #1,008)
- Biggest jump: 71 spots in 2024 (#1,055 → #984)
- Biggest drop: 24 spots in 2025 (#984 → #1,008)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 2024 at #984 (264 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 2024
- Highest: 1 in 6,137 girls born in 2024 were named Malka (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,481 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 27.0% of all girls named Malka (1,755) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 14 | #3,593 (1948) | #4,277 |
| 1950s | 110 | #2,699 (1953) | #3,731 |
| 1960s | 164 | #2,307 (1960) | #3,301 |
| 1970s | 353 | #1,996 (1976) | #2,351 |
| 1980s | 570 | #1,726 (1984) | #1,951 |
| 1990s | 856 | #1,551 (1998) | #1,767 |
| 2000s | 1,299 | #1,398 (2009) | #1,591 |
| 2010s | 1,755 | #1,140 (2016) | #1,350 |
| 2020s | 1,379 | #984 (2024) | #1,085 |
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.
Malka in 2012
Top girls' names in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
girls
1,761,053 girls got a published name in 2012; 1 in 13,443 of them was named Malka, which outranked 91.6% of the 19,534 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,629Karter132
- #1,629Maliya132
- #1,629Rhylee132
- #1,639Malka131
- #1,639August131
- #1,639Carys131
- #1,639Jazmyne131
- #1,646Destini130
- #1,646Jianna130
- #1,646Leilany130
Tied with 6 names at #1,639; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 379,389 of them was named Malka, which outranked 13.9% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,976 names at #12,274; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.