Maliki
Maliki was given to 21 boys in 2025, #4,807 among boys’ names; 1,181 Americans have been recorded with it since 1992 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,170 Americans named Maliki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maliki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Maliki?
#4,807 among boys’ names, 2025
Maliki fell from #2,289 in 2015 to #4,807 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 30.3 to 12.3 per million.
79 babies in 2005, the peak
Maliki peaked in 2005, when 79 boys were given it, #1,701 among boys’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #4,807 | 12.3 |
| 2024 | 18 | #5,361 | 10.4 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,851 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,192 | 21.8 |
| 2021 | 38 | #3,154 | 21.7 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,385 | 32.4 |
| 2019 | 43 | #2,881 | 24.0 |
| 2018 | 53 | #2,459 | 29.2 |
| 2017 | 38 | #3,105 | 20.5 |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,042 | 20.6 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 58 | #2,289 | 30.3 |
| 2014 | 50 | #2,501 | 26.0 |
| 2013 | 51 | #2,447 | 27.0 |
| 2012 | 44 | #2,748 | 23.2 |
| 2011 | 47 | #2,617 | 24.7 |
| 2010 | 51 | #2,453 | 26.6 |
| 2009 | 48 | #2,610 | 24.2 |
| 2008 | 56 | #2,336 | 27.4 |
| 2007 | 54 | #2,401 | 26.0 |
| 2006 | 56 | #2,270 | 27.2 |
| 2005 | 79 | #1,701 | 39.6 |
| 2004 | 45 | #2,467 | 22.7 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,533 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 30 | #3,055 | 15.5 |
| 2001 | 22 | #3,798 | 11.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,913 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,895 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,552 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,924 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #6,881 | 4.2 |
| 1995 | 10 | #5,754 | 5.3 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,048 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #9,306 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Maliki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maliki has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Maliki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maliki, and how old are they?
1,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,181 Americans ever recorded as Maliki. The median Maliki alive today is 15 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 920 people named Maliki (31 women and girls, 889 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 986 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 31 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 608 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 528 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 29,960 babies since 1880, Maliki is the fifth most given (3.9% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 2,126 babies (<1%), again the fifth 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 Maliki
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 Maliki and names like it
- Compare Maliki and MalakaiBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMaliki peaked in 2005.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Maliki since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Maliki.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Maliki alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.