Meaning not yet researched.
Malek: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 121 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,278 in 2023.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,278 in 2023; #1,472 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malek in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,472 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2023, at #1,278.
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Malek: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 121 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,278 in 2023 · most boys in one year: 151 (2023).
In 2025, 121 US boys were named Malek, making it the 1,472nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 42 places from #1,430 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 128 boys named Malek in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,278, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 151. For comparison, it was #2,011 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malek in 50 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1974 with 5 babies. In all, 3,092 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 930 babies named Malek.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,179 US boys were named Malek; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,116 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malek ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #676 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malik (49,866 babies since 1880), Malak (4,183 babies since 1880) and Maleek (2,086 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mahleek are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mahleek (10).
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 Malek 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 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #676 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #813 | #935 |
| California | 25 | #924 | #2,173 |
| Ohio | 7 | #1,084 | — |
| Washington | 5 | #1,090 | — |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,127 | #930 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,189 | — |
| New York | 9 | #1,259 | #1,306 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,573 | #1,634 |
| Texas | 10 | #1,717 | #1,723 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 121 | #1,472 |
| 2024 | — | — | 128 | #1,430 |
| 2023 | — | — | 151 | #1,278 |
| 2022 | — | — | 118 | #1,529 |
| 2021 | — | — | 118 | #1,511 |
| 2020 | — | — | 125 | #1,393 |
| 2019 | — | — | 130 | #1,377 |
| 2018 | — | — | 100 | #1,636 |
| 2017 | — | — | 93 | #1,702 |
| 2016 | — | — | 95 | #1,670 |
| 2015 | — | — | 72 | #2,011 |
| 2014 | — | — | 96 | #1,622 |
| 2013 | — | — | 83 | #1,759 |
| 2012 | — | — | 97 | #1,612 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,066 | 81 | #1,790 |
| 2010 | — | — | 77 | #1,875 |
| 2009 | — | — | 98 | #1,623 |
| 2008 | — | — | 88 | #1,729 |
| 2007 | — | — | 69 | #2,027 |
| 2006 | — | — | 71 | #1,908 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,627 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,776 |
| 2003 | — | — | 71 | #1,727 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,657 |
| 2001 | — | — | 82 | #1,495 |
| 2000 | — | — | 74 | #1,599 |
| 1999 | — | — | 72 | #1,550 |
| 1998 | — | — | 73 | #1,508 |
| 1997 | — | — | 75 | #1,449 |
| 1996 | — | — | 75 | #1,410 |
| 1995 | — | — | 58 | #1,596 |
| 1994 | — | — | 45 | #1,882 |
| 1993 | — | — | 48 | #1,783 |
| 1992 | — | — | 23 | #2,965 |
| 1991 | — | — | 13 | #4,384 |
| 1990 | — | — | 23 | #2,836 |
| 1989 | — | — | 14 | #3,938 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,642 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,882 |
| 1986 | — | — | 12 | #3,793 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #4,992 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,816 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,853 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,270 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #5,963 |
| 1979 | — | — | 10 | #3,974 |
| 1978 | — | — | 5 | #6,409 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,360 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #5,981 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,698 |
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).