Meaning not yet researched.
Malak: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 137 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,169 in 2011.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,169 in 2011; #1,544 in 2025. About 89% of babies named Malak in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,544 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2011, at #1,169.
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Malak: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 137 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,169 in 2011 · most girls in one year: 210 (2011).
In 2025, 137 US girls were named Malak, making it the 1,544th most common girls’ name of the year, up 128 places from #1,672 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 123 girls named Malak in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,169, reached in 2011. That year also had the most girls given the name: 210. For comparison, it was #1,310 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 17 US boys were named Malak, making it the 5,523rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 160 places from #5,363 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 18 boys named Malak in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,682, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 21. For comparison, it was #6,933 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malak in 41 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 5 babies. In all, 4,183 US babies have been given the name, 93% of them girls and 6.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,820 babies named Malak.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,375 US girls were named Malak; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 187. In 2025 that was about 1 in 11,732 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malak ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #626 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malik (49,866 babies since 1880), Malek (3,092 babies since 1880) and Maleek (2,086 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Malak 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 13 | #626 | #519 |
| Illinois | 12 | #776 | #1,245 |
| Massachusetts | 6 | #847 | #365 |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,007 | #654 |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,007 | — |
| New York | 14 | #1,068 | #586 |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,117 | #1,130 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,234 | — |
| Georgia | 6 | #1,485 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,636 | #2,004 |
| California | 11 | #1,902 | #1,569 |
| Texas | 10 | #2,145 | #1,680 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,544 | 17 | #5,523 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,672 | 18 | #5,363 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,787 | 14 | #6,390 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,608 | 12 | #7,082 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,825 | 12 | #6,951 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,498 | 16 | #5,603 |
| 2019 | 116 | #1,766 | 8 | #9,423 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,563 | 12 | #6,974 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,264 | 21 | #4,682 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,367 | 13 | #6,578 |
| 2015 | 182 | #1,310 | 12 | #6,933 |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,380 | 16 | #5,624 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,378 | 11 | #7,358 |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,414 | 12 | #6,881 |
| 2011 | 210 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,212 | 9 | #8,542 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,278 | 8 | #9,557 |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,536 | 8 | #9,537 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,660 | 8 | #9,434 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,622 | 6 | #10,978 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,559 | 7 | #9,577 |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,028 | 9 | #7,613 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,439 | 7 | #9,039 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,250 | 5 | #11,666 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,694 | 8 | #7,917 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,412 | — | — |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,541 | 8 | #7,284 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,854 | — | — |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,135 | 5 | #9,958 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,547 | 7 | #7,496 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,751 | — | — |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,477 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,623 | — | — |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,354 | — | — |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,332 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,042 | — | — |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,679 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,328 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,737 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,275 | — | — |
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).