Maleeka
Maleeka was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,379 among girls’ names; 246 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleeka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleeka?
#16,379 among girls’ names, 2025
Maleeka entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,379 in 2025.
14 babies in 1991, the peak
Maleeka peaked in 1991, when 14 girls were given it, #6,455 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 36% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,379 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,604 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,074 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,918 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,573 | 6.5 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,654 | 4.5 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,267 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,969 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,929 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,799 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (30)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | #13,437 | 4.2 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,368 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,720 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,908 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,350 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,413 | 4.6 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,982 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,477 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,944 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,474 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,328 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,455 | 7.5 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,798 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,460 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,118 | 5.1 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,326 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,535 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,071 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,728 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,587 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleeka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleeka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 30 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleeka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleeka, and how old are they?
An estimated 241 Americans named Maleeka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 15 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 240 people named Maleeka (237 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 15,355 babies since 1880, Maleeka is the sixth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 400 babies (1.3%), the fifth 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.
More about Maleeka and names like it
- Compare Maleeka and MalkaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaleeka peaked in 1991.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleeka since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Maleeka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Maleeka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.