Malka — #985 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Malka

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,250 babies named Malka between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Malka currently holds the #985 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 262 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Malka performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,755 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Malka shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 4,128 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and Maryland. In total, SSA state-level files list Malka in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Malka in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,250 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.