Meaning not yet researched.
Malaika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 78 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,390 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,390 in 1972; #2,344 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malaika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,344 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #1,390.
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Malaika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 78 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,390 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 86 (2024).
In 2025, 78 US girls were named Malaika, making it the 2,344th most common girls’ name of the year, down 134 places from #2,210 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 86 girls named Malaika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,390, reached in 1972. The most girls given the name in a single year was 86, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,798 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malaika in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 8 babies. In all, 2,662 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 681 babies named Malaika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 684 US girls were named Malaika; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,606 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malaika ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #599 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malakai (17,887 babies since 1880), Malika (5,003 babies since 1880) and Malikai (2,088 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Malaika in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 9 | #599 | — |
| Indiana | 7 | #887 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,284 | #1,454 |
| Florida | 5 | #2,371 | — |
| Texas | 8 | #2,553 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 78 | #2,344 | — | — |
| 2024 | 86 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 2023 | 72 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2022 | 67 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 2021 | 75 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 2020 | 62 | #2,702 | — | — |
| 2019 | 52 | #3,120 | — | — |
| 2018 | 66 | #2,636 | — | — |
| 2017 | 69 | #2,563 | — | — |
| 2016 | 57 | #2,953 | — | — |
| 2015 | 63 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 2014 | 58 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 2013 | 53 | #3,108 | — | — |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,347 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,631 | — | — |
| 2009 | 61 | #2,875 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,300 | — | — |
| 2007 | 69 | #2,670 | — | — |
| 2006 | 86 | #2,241 | — | — |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,397 | — | — |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 2003 | 72 | #2,335 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 2001 | 60 | #2,556 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,623 | — | — |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,880 | — | — |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,864 | — | — |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,937 | — | — |
| 1995 | 34 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1994 | 39 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,199 | — | — |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,741 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1990 | 28 | #3,773 | — | — |
| 1989 | 15 | #5,721 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,974 | — | — |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,597 | — | — |
| 1986 | 17 | #4,655 | — | — |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,752 | — | — |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,880 | — | — |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,595 | — | — |
| 1982 | 20 | #3,966 | — | — |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,098 | — | — |
| 1980 | 27 | #3,178 | — | — |
| 1979 | 29 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,773 | — | — |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,496 | — | — |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,909 | — | — |
| 1975 | 36 | #2,308 | — | — |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,986 | — | — |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1971 | 56 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1970 | 37 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,348 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,449 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).