Maleek
Maleek was given to 34 boys in 2025, #3,419 among boys’ names; 2,086 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,050 Americans named Maleek and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 11 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleek by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleek?
#3,419 among boys’ names, 2025
Maleek fell from #2,588 in 2015 to #3,419 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 25.0 to 19.9 per million.
90 babies in 1997, the peak
Maleek peaked in 1997, when 90 boys were given it, #1,277 among boys’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 38% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #3,419 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 38 | #3,194 | 22.1 |
| 2023 | 57 | #2,408 | 33.3 |
| 2022 | 50 | #2,662 | 28.6 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,207 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 48 | #2,641 | 27.8 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,646 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 44 | #2,779 | 24.2 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,205 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,041 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 48 | #2,588 | 25.0 |
| 2014 | 49 | #2,529 | 25.5 |
| 2013 | 70 | #1,983 | 37.0 |
| 2012 | 66 | #2,082 | 34.8 |
| 2011 | 72 | #1,940 | 37.9 |
| 2010 | 52 | #2,422 | 27.1 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,966 | 36.3 |
| 2008 | 74 | #1,943 | 36.3 |
| 2007 | 70 | #2,010 | 33.7 |
| 2006 | 77 | #1,803 | 37.5 |
| 2005 | 66 | #1,933 | 33.0 |
| 2004 | 56 | #2,118 | 28.2 |
| 2003 | 61 | #1,921 | 30.9 |
| 2002 | 54 | #2,032 | 27.8 |
| 2001 | 72 | #1,639 | 37.1 |
| 2000 | 75 | #1,575 | 38.2 |
| 1999 | 76 | #1,496 | 39.6 |
| 1998 | 65 | #1,610 | 34.0 |
| 1997 | 90 | #1,277 | 47.7 |
| 1996 | 82 | #1,325 | 43.3 |
| 1995 | 73 | #1,383 | 38.3 |
| 1994 | 43 | #1,950 | 22.3 |
| 1993 | 39 | #2,067 | 19.9 |
| 1992 | 29 | #2,501 | 14.5 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,404 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 14 | #4,106 | 6.8 |
| 1989 | 14 | #3,931 | 7.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,192 | 3.7 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,267 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,357 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,695 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleek a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleek has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleek: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleek, and how old are they?
2,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,086 Americans ever recorded as Maleek. The median Maleek alive today is 19 years old; half are between 11 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,381 people named Maleek (9 women and girls, 1,372 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,783 born in the U.S. The Census count is 23% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 314 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,080 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 646 |
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 Maleek born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #1,942 | 1.7× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,815 | 0.2× |
Where Maleek is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maleek is most over-represented in New York: since 1974 it was given 1.7 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 boys’ 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 Maleek 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 57,751 babies since 1880, Maleek is the third most given (3.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 918 babies (3.7%), again the third 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 Maleek
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 Maleek and names like it
- Compare Maleek and MalikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaleek peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleek since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Maleek.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleek alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.