Meaning not yet researched.
Malikai: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 129 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,277 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,277 in 2020; #1,416 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malikai in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,416 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,277.
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Malikai: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 129 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,277 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 148 (2023).
In 2025, 129 US boys were named Malikai, making it the 1,416th most common boys’ name of the year, down 82 places from #1,334 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 144 boys named Malikai in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,277, reached in 2020. The most boys given the name in a single year was 148, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,904 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malikai in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1997 with 6 babies. In all, 2,088 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.7% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 830 babies named Malikai.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,258 US boys were named Malikai; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 148. In 2025 that was about 1 in 13,241 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Malikai ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #914 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Malakai (17,887 babies since 1880), Malika (5,003 babies since 1880) and Malaika (2,662 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 Malikai 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 9 | #914 | — |
| Florida | 12 | #1,103 | — |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,196 | — |
| Texas | 16 | #1,280 | — |
| California | 13 | #1,403 | #1,712 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 129 | #1,416 |
| 2024 | — | — | 144 | #1,334 |
| 2023 | — | — | 148 | #1,298 |
| 2022 | — | — | 148 | #1,292 |
| 2021 | — | — | 117 | #1,521 |
| 2020 | — | — | 144 | #1,277 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,097 | 132 | #1,361 |
| 2018 | — | — | 103 | #1,599 |
| 2017 | — | — | 109 | #1,521 |
| 2016 | — | — | 84 | #1,807 |
| 2015 | — | — | 77 | #1,904 |
| 2014 | — | — | 66 | #2,109 |
| 2013 | — | — | 63 | #2,130 |
| 2012 | — | — | 71 | #2,000 |
| 2011 | — | — | 59 | #2,222 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,498 |
| 2009 | — | — | 73 | #1,952 |
| 2008 | — | — | 68 | #2,049 |
| 2007 | — | — | 51 | #2,495 |
| 2006 | — | — | 55 | #2,304 |
| 2005 | — | — | 50 | #2,351 |
| 2004 | — | — | 51 | #2,271 |
| 2003 | — | — | 26 | #3,494 |
| 2002 | — | — | 35 | #2,733 |
| 2001 | — | — | 17 | #4,612 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,774 |
| 1997 | — | — | 6 | #8,854 |
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).