Malick
Malick was given to 22 boys in 2025, #4,634 among boys’ names; 626 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malick by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malick?
#4,634 among boys’ names, 2025
Malick rose from #5,641 in 2015 to #4,634 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 12.9 per million.
32 babies in 1997, the peak
Malick peaked in 1997, when 32 boys were given it, #2,526 among boys’ names. The 22 births of 2025 are 69% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #4,634 | 12.9 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,360 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,386 | 8.2 |
| 2022 | 16 | #5,780 | 9.2 |
| 2021 | 19 | #5,044 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,153 | 10.4 |
| 2019 | 23 | #4,418 | 12.8 |
| 2018 | 8 | #9,336 | 4.4 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,687 | 8.6 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,712 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,641 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #4,475 | 11.5 |
| 2013 | 26 | #3,923 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,622 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,764 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,625 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,860 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 21 | #4,645 | 10.3 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,313 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 22 | #4,316 | 10.7 |
| 2005 | 28 | #3,495 | 14.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,952 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,546 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 17 | #4,621 | 8.8 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,222 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,949 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,261 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 21 | #3,559 | 11.0 |
| 1997 | 32 | #2,526 | 17.0 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,526 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,490 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,455 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,605 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,059 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #6,991 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malick a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malick has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malick: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malick, and how old are they?
An estimated 617 Americans named Malick and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 10 and 24. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 764 people named Malick (7 women and girls, 757 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 517 born in the U.S. The Census count is 48% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Malick?
Malick is a less common spelling of Malik: SSA has recorded 626 Malick and 49,866 Malik since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 58,097 babies since 1880, Malick is the fifth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 929 babies (2.4%), the fourth 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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malick
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 Malick and names like it
- Compare Malick and MalikBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMalick peaked in 1997.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malick since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Malick.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malick alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.