Malique
Malique was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,488 among boys’ names; 1,963 Americans have been recorded with it since 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,930 Americans named Malique and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malique by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malique?
#7,488 among boys’ names, 2025
Malique fell from #3,482 in 2015 to #7,488 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 16.7 to 6.4 per million.
133 babies in 1998, the peak
Malique peaked in 1998, when 133 boys were given it, #1,018 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,488 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 24 | #4,391 | 13.9 |
| 2023 | 15 | #6,108 | 8.8 |
| 2022 | 20 | #4,954 | 11.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,085 | 14.9 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,982 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,169 | 20.6 |
| 2018 | 25 | #4,167 | 13.8 |
| 2017 | 28 | #3,851 | 15.1 |
| 2016 | 27 | #3,944 | 14.2 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,482 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,582 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 49 | #2,508 | 25.9 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,659 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 41 | #2,880 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 56 | #2,309 | 29.2 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,243 | 29.7 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,198 | 29.9 |
| 2007 | 66 | #2,084 | 31.8 |
| 2006 | 68 | #1,984 | 33.1 |
| 2005 | 85 | #1,610 | 42.6 |
| 2004 | 71 | #1,774 | 35.8 |
| 2003 | 85 | #1,522 | 43.0 |
| 2002 | 92 | #1,415 | 47.4 |
| 2001 | 106 | #1,258 | 54.6 |
| 2000 | 99 | #1,301 | 50.4 |
| 1999 | 77 | #1,480 | 40.1 |
| 1998 | 133 | #1,018 | 69.6 |
| 1997 | 119 | #1,068 | 63.1 |
| 1996 | 123 | #1,013 | 64.9 |
| 1995 | 83 | #1,289 | 43.6 |
| 1994 | 48 | #1,807 | 24.8 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,320 | 16.8 |
| 1992 | 22 | #3,069 | 11.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,561 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,736 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 6 | #7,550 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Malique a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malique has been given almost only to boys: 11 girls in 37 years of records.
Girls and boys named Malique: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malique, and how old are they?
1,930 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,963 Americans ever recorded as Malique. The median Malique alive today is 23 years old; half are between 16 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 1,474 people named Malique (37 women and girls, 1,437 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,823 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 331 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,250 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 347 |
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 Malique born?
The states with the most babies named Malique are New York, Florida and California, with 51% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 183 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| Florida | 142 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| California | 71 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 67 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 44 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 42 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 40 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 38 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 36 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Maryland | 31 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Malique is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malique is most over-represented in New York: since 1989 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Malique with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Malique
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 Malique and names like it
- Compare Malique and KendariusBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMalique peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malique since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Malique.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Malique alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.