Meaning not yet researched.
Malika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 64 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,026 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,026 in 1996; #2,711 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malika in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,711 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,026.
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Malika: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 64 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,026 in 1996 · most girls in one year: 183 (1996).
In 2025, 64 US girls were named Malika, making it the 2,711th most common girls’ name of the year, up 133 places from #2,844 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 59 girls named Malika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,026, reached in 1996. That year also had the most girls given the name: 183. For comparison, it was #3,113 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malika in 59 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 5,003 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,397 babies named Malika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 798 US girls were named Malika; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,114 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malika ranked highest in Pennsylvania in 2025, at #1,335 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), Malaika (2,662 babies since 1880) and Malikai (2,088 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mallika, Maleeka and Maleika are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Arabic and Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mallika (332), Maleeka (246), Maleika (29), Malicah (27), Malieka (21), Malikka (10), Malica (10), Malaica (8), Malicka (5).
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 Malika 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 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,335 | — |
| New York | 8 | #1,608 | #1,184 |
| California | 6 | #2,978 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 64 | #2,711 | — | — |
| 2024 | 59 | #2,844 | — | — |
| 2023 | 88 | #2,167 | — | — |
| 2022 | 82 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2021 | 78 | #2,337 | — | — |
| 2020 | 88 | #2,091 | — | — |
| 2019 | 89 | #2,124 | — | — |
| 2018 | 80 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 2017 | 84 | #2,250 | — | — |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,240 | — | — |
| 2015 | 54 | #3,113 | — | — |
| 2014 | 80 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2013 | 61 | #2,829 | — | — |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,330 | — | — |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 2010 | 52 | #3,188 | — | — |
| 2009 | 38 | #4,070 | — | — |
| 2008 | 58 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 2007 | 65 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2006 | 57 | #3,006 | — | — |
| 2005 | 59 | #2,811 | — | — |
| 2004 | 71 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,941 | — | — |
| 2002 | 84 | #2,057 | — | — |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,694 | 6 | #10,065 |
| 2000 | 107 | #1,656 | 5 | #11,507 |
| 1999 | 111 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1998 | 109 | #1,539 | 8 | #7,285 |
| 1997 | 131 | #1,323 | 7 | #7,806 |
| 1996 | 183 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1995 | 149 | #1,166 | 5 | #9,756 |
| 1994 | 145 | #1,213 | — | — |
| 1993 | 154 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 1992 | 149 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1991 | 120 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1990 | 126 | #1,295 | — | — |
| 1989 | 80 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1988 | 80 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1986 | 73 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1985 | 65 | #1,750 | — | — |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,524 | — | — |
| 1983 | 76 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1982 | 73 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1981 | 100 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,385 | 5 | #6,877 |
| 1979 | 94 | #1,327 | — | — |
| 1978 | 117 | #1,115 | — | — |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,260 | — | — |
| 1976 | 92 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1975 | 115 | #1,042 | — | — |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1973 | 58 | #1,600 | — | — |
| 1972 | 60 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,989 | — | — |
| 1970 | 39 | #2,103 | — | — |
| 1969 | 19 | #3,161 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,423 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,262 | — | — |
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).