Malikhi
Malikhi was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,487 among boys’ names; 313 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malikhi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malikhi?
#7,487 among boys’ names, 2025
Malikhi fell from #6,182 in 2015 to #7,487 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.3 to 6.4 per million.
21 babies in 2009, the peak
Malikhi peaked in 2009, when 21 boys were given it, #4,686 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,487 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 5 | #13,497 | 2.9 |
| 2023 | 10 | #8,049 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,760 | 3.4 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,210 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,875 | 7.0 |
| 2019 | 17 | #5,477 | 9.5 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,576 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 15 | #5,964 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #6,575 | 6.9 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #6,182 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,323 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,355 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,403 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,765 | 10.5 |
| 2010 | 16 | #5,637 | 8.3 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,686 | 10.6 |
| 2008 | 14 | #6,284 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,919 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 14 | #5,980 | 6.8 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,189 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,011 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,439 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 12 | #5,931 | 6.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malikhi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malikhi has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malikhi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malikhi, and how old are they?
An estimated 310 Americans named Malikhi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 189 people named Malikhi (2 women and girls, 187 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 256 born in the U.S. The Census count is 26% 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.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 30,132 babies since 1880, Malikhi is the eighth most given (1.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 2,139 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Malikhi
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 Malikhi and names like it
- Compare Malikhi and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMalikhi peaked in 2009.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malikhi since 1910.
- The top names of 2009The year the most babies were named Malikhi.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malikhi alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.