Maalik
Maalik was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,480 among boys’ names; 554 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maalik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maalik?
#7,480 among boys’ names, 2025
Maalik fell from #6,170 in 2015 to #7,480 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 6.4 per million.
35 babies in 1995, the peak
Maalik peaked in 1995, when 35 boys were given it, #2,272 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,480 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,099 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,429 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,577 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,577 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,226 | 4.6 |
| 2019 | 16 | #5,706 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 7 | #10,330 | 3.9 |
| 2017 | 12 | #6,945 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,943 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,170 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 15 | #5,893 | 7.8 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,110 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 15 | #5,878 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 11 | #7,306 | 5.8 |
| 2010 | 13 | #6,578 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #4,527 | 11.1 |
| 2008 | 11 | #7,518 | 5.4 |
| 2007 | 16 | #5,583 | 7.7 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,239 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,138 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,203 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,434 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #4,264 | 9.8 |
| 2001 | 20 | #4,053 | 10.3 |
| 2000 | 27 | #3,188 | 13.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,539 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 23 | #3,347 | 12.0 |
| 1997 | 26 | #2,948 | 13.8 |
| 1996 | 30 | #2,571 | 15.8 |
| 1995 | 35 | #2,272 | 18.4 |
| 1994 | 18 | #3,693 | 9.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #5,491 | 5.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,769 | 4.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,881 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 8 | #5,989 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maalik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maalik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 36 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maalik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maalik, and how old are they?
An estimated 543 Americans named Maalik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 422 people named Maalik (1 woman or girl, 421 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 498 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Maalik?
Maalik is a less common spelling of Malik: SSA has recorded 554 Maalik and 49,866 Malik since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 56,299 babies since 1880, Maalik is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 895 babies (1.2%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Maalik
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Maalik and names like it
- Compare Maalik and MalikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaalik peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maalik since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Maalik.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maalik alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.