Maleik
Maleik was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 405 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maleik by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maleik?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #13,437, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
28 babies in 1998, the peak
Maleik peaked in 1998, when 28 boys were given it, #2,895 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #13,437 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,351 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,626 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,947 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #8,573 | 4.9 |
| 2015 | 7 | #10,223 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,308 | 4.2 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,872 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,605 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 15 | #5,849 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (29)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 15 | #5,927 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,521 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 12 | #7,037 | 5.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,918 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 26 | #3,854 | 12.7 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,752 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 18 | #4,707 | 9.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #6,109 | 6.1 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,733 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,604 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 20 | #4,008 | 10.2 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,923 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 28 | #2,895 | 14.6 |
| 1997 | 20 | #3,537 | 10.6 |
| 1996 | 27 | #2,798 | 14.3 |
| 1995 | 26 | #2,813 | 13.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,708 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,047 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,058 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maleik a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maleik has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 29 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maleik: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maleik, and how old are they?
An estimated 397 Americans named Maleik and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 298 people named Maleik (9 women and girls, 289 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 390 born in the U.S. The Census count is 24% 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.
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 58,097 babies since 1880, Maleik is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 929 babies recorded by SSA was a Maleik (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Maleik
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 Maleik and names like it
- Compare Maleik and MalikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMaleik peaked in 1998.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maleik since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Maleik.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maleik alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.