Malak
Malak is given to both girls and boys: 137 girls and 17 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,544 among girls’ names and #5,521 among boys’, #2,649 among all names counting both); 4,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1983 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,150 Americans named Malak and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malak by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malak?
#1,544 among girls’ names, 2025
Malak fell from #1,310 in 2015 to #1,544 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.10 to 0.09 per 1,000.
210 babies in 2011, the peak
Malak peaked in 2011, when 210 girls were given it, #1,169 among girls’ names. The 154 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 73% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 137 | #1,544 | 0.09 |
| 2024 | 123 | #1,672 | 0.08 |
| 2023 | 114 | #1,787 | 0.07 |
| 2022 | 132 | #1,608 | 0.08 |
| 2021 | 111 | #1,825 | 0.07 |
| 2020 | 143 | #1,498 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 116 | #1,766 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 139 | #1,563 | 0.08 |
| 2017 | 187 | #1,264 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 173 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 182 | #1,310 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 168 | #1,380 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,378 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 162 | #1,414 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 210 | #1,169 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 200 | #1,212 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 191 | #1,278 | 0.10 |
| 2008 | 151 | #1,536 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 134 | #1,660 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,586 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 125 | #1,621 | 0.07 |
| 2004 | 127 | #1,558 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 89 | #2,026 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,436 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 72 | #2,246 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 55 | #2,690 | 0.03 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,409 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,538 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,851 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 31 | #3,542 | 0.02 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,746 | 0.02 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,471 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,617 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,347 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 14 | #6,326 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,674 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,323 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,732 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,271 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malak a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,183 Americans recorded as Malak, 93% are girls and 7% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Malak: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malak, and how old are they?
4,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 4,183 Americans ever recorded as Malak. The median Malak alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 4,277 people named Malak (3,842 women and girls, 435 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,348 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 176 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,060 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Malak born?
The states with the most babies named Malak are New York, Michigan and Illinois, with 36% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 14 | #1,068 | 1.7× |
| Michigan | 13 | #626 | 3.7× |
| Illinois | 12 | #776 | 1.4× |
| California | 11 | #1,902 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 10 | #2,145 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 9 | #1,007 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 8 | #1,636 | 0.7× |
| Virginia | 7 | #1,007 | 1.4× |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,234 | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #1,117 | 1.4× |
Where Malak is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malak is most over-represented in Michigan: since 1983 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malak with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 4,509 babies since 1880, Malak is the most given (93% of them). In 2025 it was given to 154 of their 161 babies (96%), again the most given.
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 Malak
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 Malak and names like it
- Compare Malak and MalaakBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMalak peaked in 2011.
- Michigan’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malak since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Malak.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malak alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.