Meaning not yet researched.
Malaki: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 158 in 2025. Its best rank was #783 in 2007.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #783 in 2007; #1,258 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malaki in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,258 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2007, at #783.
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Malaki: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 158 boys in 2025. Peak: #783 in 2007 · most boys in one year: 278 (2007).
In 2025, 158 US boys were named Malaki, making it the 1,258th most common boys’ name of the year, up 120 places from #1,378 in 2024. That is 21 more than the 137 boys named Malaki in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #783, reached in 2007. That year also had the most boys given the name: 278. For comparison, it was #990 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malaki in 35 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 5 babies. In all, 4,791 US babies have been given the name, 0.1% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,942 babies named Malaki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,610 US boys were named Malaki; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 202. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,811 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malaki ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #404 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Maliki (1,181 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malakye, Maleki and Malahki are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Malakye (517), Maleki (253), Malahki (124), Malakia (73), Malaky (71), Malakie (70), Malacki (69), Malyki (68), Malakiah (56), Malikia (55), Maliky (51), Malakii (46), and more.
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 Malaki in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 34 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 5 | #404 | — |
| Louisiana | 8 | #571 | #683 |
| Oregon | 5 | #675 | — |
| Indiana | 9 | #696 | #775 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #767 | #560 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #773 | #521 |
| Arizona | 7 | #822 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #841 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,133 | #800 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,171 | #1,471 |
| Texas | 18 | #1,199 | #740 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,200 | #966 |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,228 | #1,085 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,229 | #1,054 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,362 | #905 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,476 | #968 |
| California | 6 | #2,364 | #1,192 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 158 | #1,258 |
| 2024 | — | — | 137 | #1,378 |
| 2023 | — | — | 150 | #1,284 |
| 2022 | — | — | 146 | #1,303 |
| 2021 | — | — | 165 | #1,193 |
| 2020 | — | — | 135 | #1,332 |
| 2019 | — | — | 171 | #1,140 |
| 2018 | — | — | 168 | #1,148 |
| 2017 | — | — | 178 | #1,097 |
| 2016 | — | — | 202 | #1,009 |
| 2015 | — | — | 209 | #990 |
| 2014 | — | — | 171 | #1,124 |
| 2013 | — | — | 179 | #1,057 |
| 2012 | — | — | 209 | #963 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,523 | 199 | #986 |
| 2010 | — | — | 251 | #843 |
| 2009 | — | — | 242 | #873 |
| 2008 | — | — | 229 | #908 |
| 2007 | — | — | 278 | #783 |
| 2006 | — | — | 253 | #807 |
| 2005 | — | — | 245 | #793 |
| 2004 | — | — | 183 | #927 |
| 2003 | — | — | 141 | #1,095 |
| 2002 | — | — | 133 | #1,104 |
| 2001 | — | — | 89 | #1,409 |
| 2000 | — | — | 45 | #2,211 |
| 1999 | — | — | 27 | #3,071 |
| 1998 | — | — | 24 | #3,258 |
| 1997 | — | — | 21 | #3,418 |
| 1996 | — | — | 15 | #4,312 |
| 1995 | — | — | 8 | #6,754 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,956 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,875 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,983 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,734 |
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).