Malikah
Malikah was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,291 among girls’ names; 1,033 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Malikah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 21 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malikah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malikah?
#14,291 among girls’ names, 2025
Malikah fell from #10,600 in 2015 to #14,291 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 3.7 per million.
45 babies in 1979, the peak
Malikah peaked in 1979, when 45 girls were given it, #2,205 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,291 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,759 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,806 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,904 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,876 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,474 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,230 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,274 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,523 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,600 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 9 | #11,580 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,393 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,163 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,967 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,585 | 6.8 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,297 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,794 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,676 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,638 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,649 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 8 | #11,980 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 17 | #6,569 | 9.5 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,018 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,022 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,078 | 7.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,495 | 10.8 |
| 1997 | 29 | #3,862 | 16.7 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,398 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 33 | #3,392 | 18.8 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,192 | 14.0 |
| 1993 | 40 | #2,968 | 22.1 |
| 1992 | 32 | #3,459 | 17.4 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,256 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,434 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,786 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,407 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,176 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,129 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 17 | #4,568 | 9.9 |
| 1984 | 34 | #2,706 | 20.2 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,030 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,843 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 41 | #2,395 | 24.6 |
| 1980 | 36 | #2,630 | 21.7 |
| 1979 | 45 | #2,205 | 28.0 |
| 1978 | 38 | #2,373 | 24.8 |
| 1977 | 43 | #2,178 | 28.0 |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,322 | 24.6 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,964 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,293 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,831 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,934 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,272 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,347 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,704 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malikah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,033 Americans recorded as Malikah, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Malikah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malikah, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,033 Americans ever recorded as Malikah. The median Malikah alive today is 34 years old; half are between 21 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 870 people named Malikah (792 women and girls, 78 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 963 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 230 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 393 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 268 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 114 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Malikah?
Malikah is a less common spelling of Malika: SSA has recorded 1,033 Malikah and 5,003 Malika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 16,142 babies since 1880, Malikah is the fourth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 401 babies (1.5%), again the fourth most given.
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 Malikah
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 Malikah and names like it
- Compare Malikah and MalikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMalikah peaked in 1979.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malikah since 1910.
- The top names of 1979The year the most babies were named Malikah.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Malikah alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.