Malka
Malka was given to 248 girls in 2025, #1,011 among girls’ names; 6,505 Americans have been recorded with it since 1946 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,370 Americans named Malka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malka?
#1,011 among girls’ names, 2025
Malka rose from #1,324 in 2015 to #1,011 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.15 per 1,000.
264 babies in 2024, the peak
Malka peaked in 2024, when 264 girls were given it, #986 among girls’ names. The 248 births of 2025 are 94% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 248 | #1,011 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 264 | #986 | 0.16 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,058 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 227 | #1,102 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 220 | #1,124 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 183 | #1,244 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 181 | #1,282 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 186 | #1,249 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 212 | #1,162 | 0.12 |
| 2016 | 222 | #1,141 | 0.13 |
Every recorded year (78)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 180 | #1,324 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 177 | #1,338 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,367 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 131 | #1,644 | 0.07 |
| 2011 | 156 | #1,450 | 0.09 |
| 2010 | 139 | #1,580 | 0.08 |
| 2009 | 169 | #1,401 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 125 | #1,767 | 0.07 |
| 2007 | 161 | #1,458 | 0.08 |
| 2006 | 124 | #1,698 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 152 | #1,411 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 123 | #1,597 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 116 | #1,663 | 0.06 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,835 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 119 | #1,569 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 112 | #1,581 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 99 | #1,672 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 107 | #1,552 | 0.06 |
| 1997 | 95 | #1,664 | 0.05 |
| 1996 | 98 | #1,592 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 78 | #1,825 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 89 | #1,678 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 63 | #2,136 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 73 | #1,919 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 76 | #1,862 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 78 | #1,836 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 69 | #1,811 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 64 | #1,825 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 53 | #2,041 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 53 | #2,033 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,743 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,038 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 50 | #2,067 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 49 | #2,103 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 49 | #2,113 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 42 | #2,290 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 45 | #2,107 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 40 | #2,288 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,017 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 34 | #2,390 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 36 | #2,237 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 30 | #2,482 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,713 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 30 | #2,520 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 26 | #2,746 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,678 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,197 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,859 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,858 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,323 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,732 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 15 | #3,372 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 20 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #3,055 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,662 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,764 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,609 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,376 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #3,256 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,764 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,341 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,886 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,348 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,770 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,406 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malka has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 78 years of records.
Girls and boys named Malka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malka, and how old are they?
6,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,505 Americans ever recorded as Malka. The median Malka alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 4,838 people named Malka (4,805 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,075 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 172 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 446 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,050 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,010 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,690 |
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 Malka born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 122 | #56 | 7.6× |
| New York | 109 | #147 | 10.0× |
Where Malka is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malka is most over-represented in New York: since 1946 it was given 10.0 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 girls’ 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 Malka 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 18,899 babies since 1880, Malka is the most given (34% of them). In 2025 it was given to 248 of their 547 babies (45%), again the 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 Malka
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 Malka and names like it
- Compare Malka and MalikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMalka peaked in 2024.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malka since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Malka.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malka alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.