Malkia
Malkia was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,386 among girls’ names; 274 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malkia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malkia?
#16,386 among girls’ names, 2025
Malkia rose from #18,150 in 2015 to #16,386 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
25 babies in 1975, the peak
Malkia peaked in 1975, when 25 girls were given it, #2,926 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,386 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,607 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,519 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,784 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,923 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,079 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,443 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,150 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,582 | 5.0 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,523 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 6 | #16,487 | 3.3 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,419 | 2.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,367 | 3.2 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,599 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,745 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,089 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,909 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,148 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,823 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,205 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,726 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,542 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,409 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,688 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,488 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,829 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,815 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,850 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,926 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,205 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,732 | 11.7 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,433 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,817 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malkia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malkia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys 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 Malkia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malkia, and how old are they?
An estimated 265 Americans named Malkia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 15 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 285 people named Malkia (275 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 242 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 18,008 babies since 1880, Malkia is the seventh most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 541 babies (<1%), the sixth 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 Malkia
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 Malkia and names like it
- Compare Malkia and MalkaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMalkia peaked in 1975.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Malkia.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Malkia alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.