Meaning not yet researched.
Maliki: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,704 in 2005.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,704 in 2005; #4,808 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maliki in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,808 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2005, at #1,704.
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Maliki: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,704 in 2005 · most boys in one year: 79 (2005).
In 2025, 21 US boys were named Maliki, making it the 4,808th most common boys’ name of the year, up 557 places from #5,365 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 18 boys named Maliki in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,704, reached in 2005. That year also had the most boys given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,290 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maliki in 33 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1992 with 5 babies. In all, 1,181 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 474 babies named Maliki.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 373 US boys were named Maliki; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 56. In 2025 that was about 1 in 81,337 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Malaki (4,791 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Malikye, Malikiah and Malikiya 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: Malikye (396), Malikiah (97), Malikiya (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 Maliki in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 21 | #4,808 |
| 2024 | — | — | 18 | #5,365 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,854 |
| 2022 | — | — | 38 | #3,194 |
| 2021 | — | — | 38 | #3,155 |
| 2020 | — | — | 56 | #2,386 |
| 2019 | — | — | 43 | #2,882 |
| 2018 | — | — | 53 | #2,460 |
| 2017 | — | — | 38 | #3,106 |
| 2016 | — | — | 39 | #3,043 |
| 2015 | — | — | 58 | #2,290 |
| 2014 | — | — | 50 | #2,503 |
| 2013 | — | — | 51 | #2,448 |
| 2012 | — | — | 44 | #2,749 |
| 2011 | — | — | 47 | #2,618 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,454 |
| 2009 | — | — | 48 | #2,611 |
| 2008 | — | — | 56 | #2,337 |
| 2007 | — | — | 54 | #2,401 |
| 2006 | — | — | 56 | #2,271 |
| 2005 | — | — | 79 | #1,704 |
| 2004 | — | — | 45 | #2,471 |
| 2003 | — | — | 41 | #2,537 |
| 2002 | — | — | 30 | #3,059 |
| 2001 | — | — | 22 | #3,803 |
| 2000 | — | — | 8 | #7,921 |
| 1999 | — | — | 11 | #5,901 |
| 1998 | — | — | 15 | #4,556 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #5,930 |
| 1996 | — | — | 8 | #6,888 |
| 1995 | — | — | 10 | #5,760 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #6,054 |
| 1992 | — | — | 5 | #9,314 |
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).