Malikah — #11260 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Malikah

The Social Security Administration has registered 943 babies named Malikah between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malikah currently holds the #11260 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1979, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Malikah is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 84 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malikah performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 267 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Malikah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New Jersey, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Malikah in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malikah 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 943 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.