Meaning not yet researched.
Malik: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 724 in 2025. Its best rank was #97 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #97 in 1996; #437 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malik in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#437 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #97.
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Malik: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 724 boys in 2025. Peak: #97 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 4,026 (1996).
In 2025, 724 US boys were named Malik, making it the 437th most common boys’ name of the year, down 9 places from #428 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 740 boys named Malik in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #97, reached in 1996. That year also had the most boys given the name: 4,026. For comparison, it was #375 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malik in 64 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1949 with 5 babies. In all, 49,866 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 18,081 babies named Malik.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 8,228 US boys were named Malik; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 886. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,359 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malik ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #229 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malek (3,092 babies since 1880), Malak (4,183 babies since 1880) and Maleek (2,086 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Maliek, Maliq and Malick 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: Maliek (1,064), Maliq (785), Malick (626), Maalik (554), Maleik (405), Malyk (404), Malaak (326), Mahlik (288), Maleak (208), Maleke (201), Malike (166), Malic (133), 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 Malik 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 25 | #229 | #247 |
| Michigan | 41 | #249 | #239 |
| Illinois | 36 | #303 | #324 |
| Minnesota | 20 | #309 | #567 |
| Ohio | 34 | #335 | #369 |
| Florida | 56 | #352 | #254 |
| Louisiana | 14 | #366 | #186 |
| Massachusetts | 14 | #372 | #358 |
| Georgia | 32 | #373 | #233 |
| Nevada | 8 | #378 | #430 |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | #383 | #296 |
| Arkansas | 9 | #384 | #385 |
| Oregon | 10 | #388 | #606 |
| Mississippi | 8 | #400 | #170 |
| New York | 43 | #402 | #377 |
| California | 76 | #426 | #547 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #440 | #495 |
| Missouri | 14 | #450 | #261 |
| Colorado | 13 | #454 | #663 |
| Virginia | 17 | #469 | #367 |
| Connecticut | 6 | #472 | #313 |
| Kentucky | 10 | #473 | #331 |
| Texas | 67 | #507 | #498 |
| Alabama | 10 | #507 | #293 |
| Utah | 8 | #539 | #735 |
| Iowa | 6 | #552 | #491 |
| North Carolina | 18 | #558 | #417 |
| Kansas | 6 | #567 | — |
| Tennessee | 13 | #576 | #259 |
| Arizona | 11 | #614 | #581 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #663 | #414 |
| Indiana | 9 | #697 | #449 |
| Washington | 9 | #714 | #820 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #826 | #301 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 724 | #437 |
| 2024 | — | — | 740 | #428 |
| 2023 | — | — | 835 | #383 |
| 2022 | — | — | 808 | #395 |
| 2021 | — | — | 810 | #392 |
| 2020 | — | — | 838 | #373 |
| 2019 | — | — | 886 | #363 |
| 2018 | — | — | 874 | #373 |
| 2017 | — | — | 869 | #378 |
| 2016 | — | — | 844 | #382 |
| 2015 | — | — | 862 | #375 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,840 | 842 | #372 |
| 2013 | — | — | 940 | #341 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,561 | 913 | #340 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,263 | 988 | #322 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,885 | 1,192 | #283 |
| 2009 | — | — | 1,359 | #255 |
| 2008 | — | — | 1,218 | #280 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,337 | 1,255 | #273 |
| 2006 | — | — | 1,191 | #289 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,937 | 1,253 | #265 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,792 | 1,377 | #243 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,046 | 1,506 | #229 |
| 2002 | — | — | 1,659 | #211 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,924 | 1,864 | #197 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,423 | 2,084 | #176 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,528 | 2,246 | #165 |
| 1998 | 16 | #6,255 | 2,694 | #138 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,783 | 3,381 | #111 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,402 | 4,026 | #97 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,635 | 2,707 | #131 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,155 | 853 | #309 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,301 | 766 | #331 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,206 | 582 | #394 |
| 1991 | — | — | 368 | #523 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,307 | 328 | #559 |
| 1989 | — | — | 223 | #671 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,045 | 158 | #755 |
| 1987 | — | — | 154 | #736 |
| 1986 | — | — | 127 | #806 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,742 | 124 | #800 |
| 1984 | — | — | 114 | #821 |
| 1983 | — | — | 115 | #818 |
| 1982 | — | — | 113 | #836 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,411 | 131 | #765 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,817 | 168 | #667 |
| 1979 | — | — | 147 | #711 |
| 1978 | — | — | 167 | #650 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,049 | 144 | #709 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,376 | 139 | #708 |
| 1975 | — | — | 123 | #753 |
| 1974 | — | — | 110 | #769 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,213 | 126 | #718 |
| 1972 | — | — | 134 | #695 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,935 | 132 | #719 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,783 | 126 | #732 |
| 1969 | — | — | 51 | #1,090 |
| 1968 | — | — | 36 | #1,271 |
| 1967 | — | — | 21 | #1,739 |
| 1966 | — | — | 17 | #1,939 |
| 1965 | — | — | 8 | #3,148 |
| 1964 | — | — | 6 | #3,878 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,599 |
| 1949 | — | — | 5 | #4,024 |
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).