Malikai
Malikai was given to 129 boys in 2025, #1,416 among boys’ names; 2,088 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,070 Americans named Malikai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malikai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malikai?
#1,416 among boys’ names, 2025
Malikai rose from #1,904 in 2015 to #1,416 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 40.2 to 75.5 per million.
148 babies in 2022, the peak
Malikai peaked in 2022, when 148 boys were given it, #1,292 among boys’ names. The 129 births of 2025 are 87% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 129 | #1,416 | 75.5 |
| 2024 | 144 | #1,334 | 83.6 |
| 2023 | 148 | #1,298 | 86.5 |
| 2022 | 148 | #1,292 | 84.8 |
| 2021 | 117 | #1,521 | 66.9 |
| 2020 | 144 | #1,277 | 83.4 |
| 2019 | 132 | #1,361 | 73.6 |
| 2018 | 103 | #1,599 | 56.7 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,521 | 58.9 |
| 2016 | 84 | #1,807 | 44.3 |
Every recorded year (27)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 77 | #1,904 | 40.2 |
| 2014 | 66 | #2,108 | 34.4 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,129 | 33.3 |
| 2012 | 71 | #1,999 | 37.4 |
| 2011 | 59 | #2,221 | 31.1 |
| 2010 | 50 | #2,497 | 26.1 |
| 2009 | 73 | #1,951 | 36.8 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,048 | 33.3 |
| 2007 | 51 | #2,495 | 24.6 |
| 2006 | 55 | #2,303 | 26.8 |
| 2005 | 50 | #2,347 | 25.0 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,267 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 26 | #3,489 | 13.2 |
| 2002 | 35 | #2,729 | 18.0 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,606 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,766 | 3.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,848 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malikai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malikai has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 27 years of records.
Girls and boys named Malikai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malikai, and how old are they?
2,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,088 Americans ever recorded as Malikai. The median Malikai alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,036 people named Malikai (11 women and girls, 1,025 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 19% 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 Z | 1997-2012 | 611 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,460 |
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).
Where are babies named Malikai born?
The states with the most babies named Malikai are Texas, California and Florida, with 75% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 16 | #1,280 | 0.7× |
| California | 13 | #1,403 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 12 | #1,103 | 1.0× |
| North Carolina | 9 | #914 | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,196 | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Malikai with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,132 babies since 1880, Malikai is the fourth most given (6.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 129 of their 2,139 babies (6.0%), the third 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 Malikai
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 Malikai and names like it
- Compare Malikai and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMalikai peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malikai since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Malikai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malikai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.