Malak — #1665 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Malak

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,757 babies named Malak between 1983 and 2024, spanning 42 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malak currently holds the #1665 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2011, when 210 babies received it in a single year. Malak is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 272 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malak performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,706 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Malak shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Michigan, which accounts for 473 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Malak in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malak 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 3,757 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.