Malkie
Malkie was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,387 among girls’ names; 88 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malkie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malkie?
#16,387 among girls’ names, 2025
Malkie entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #16,387 in 2025.
8 babies in 1986, the peak
Malkie peaked in 1986, when 8 girls were given it, #8,185 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,387 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 5 | #18,270 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,060 | 3.4 |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,914 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 5 | #15,614 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,090 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,910 | 2.9 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,303 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,872 | 4.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,395 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (15)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 | 8 | #8,185 | 4.7 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,727 | 4.2 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,732 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,965 | 3.4 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,656 | 2.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malkie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malkie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 15 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malkie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malkie, and how old are they?
An estimated 85 Americans named Malkie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 161 people named Malkie (158 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 81 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.0 times 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).
How common is the spelling Malkie?
Malkie is a less common spelling of Malky: SSA has recorded 88 Malkie and 2,687 Malky since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 9,609 babies since 1880, Malkie is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 399 babies (1.3%), again the fourth 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 Malkie
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 Malkie and names like it
- Compare Malkie and MalkyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMalkie peaked in 1986.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malkie since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Malkie.
- Names starting with MMost given first.