Malick — #5324 US boys' name
604 babies named Malick in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 63% of names given to boys today.
34% of everyone ever named Malick was born in this single decade.
32 babies were named Malick in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Malick
The Social Security Administration has registered 604 babies named Malick between 1991 and 2024, spanning 34 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Malick currently holds the #5324 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 32 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Malick performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 206 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Malick shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 87 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Malick in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Malick in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 604 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Malick at a glance
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Current rank
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Malick popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1991
- Peak year (1997)
- 32
- Annual births at peak — across 34 years of records
Currently ranks #5324 among boys.
604 total births across 34 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 32 births in a single year.
Malick by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 206 births that decade — 34% of Malick's all-time total
Malick decade highlights
- Peak decade 206 births
- Runner-up 194 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Malick's strongest decade
206 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 34% of all-time use.
Malick by state
Where Malick concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | New York | | 87 | 14.4% |
87 of 604 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- New York 14.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
New York accounts for 14.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.