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Malique: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,015 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,015 in 1996; #7,492 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Malique in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,492 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,015.
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Malique: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,015 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 133 (1998).
In 2025, 11 US boys were named Malique, making it the 7,492nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,098 places from #4,394 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 24 boys named Malique in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,015, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 133, in 1998. For comparison, it was #3,483 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Malique in 37 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1989 with 6 babies. In all, 1,963 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 798 babies named Malique.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 239 US boys were named Malique; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 155,280 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 11 | #7,492 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,394 |
| 2023 | — | — | 15 | #6,113 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,958 |
| 2021 | — | — | 26 | #4,089 |
| 2020 | — | — | 26 | #3,985 |
| 2019 | — | — | 37 | #3,172 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,171 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,855 |
| 2016 | — | — | 27 | #3,945 |
| 2015 | — | — | 32 | #3,483 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,584 |
| 2013 | — | — | 49 | #2,510 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,660 |
| 2011 | — | — | 41 | #2,881 |
| 2010 | — | — | 56 | #2,310 |
| 2009 | — | — | 59 | #2,244 |
| 2008 | — | — | 61 | #2,199 |
| 2007 | — | — | 66 | #2,084 |
| 2006 | — | — | 68 | #1,985 |
| 2005 | — | — | 85 | #1,612 |
| 2004 | — | — | 71 | #1,777 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,525 |
| 2002 | — | — | 92 | #1,418 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,654 | 106 | #1,262 |
| 2000 | — | — | 99 | #1,304 |
| 1999 | — | — | 77 | #1,483 |
| 1998 | — | — | 133 | #1,021 |
| 1997 | — | — | 119 | #1,070 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,916 | 123 | #1,015 |
| 1995 | — | — | 83 | #1,294 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,812 |
| 1993 | — | — | 33 | #2,326 |
| 1992 | — | — | 22 | #3,075 |
| 1991 | — | — | 17 | #3,568 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #7,744 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,557 |
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).