Malaika — #2196 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Malaika

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,584 babies named Malaika between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malaika currently holds the #2196 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 86 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malaika performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 681 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Malaika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 270 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Malaika in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malaika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,584 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.