Malky
Malky was given to 141 girls in 2025, #1,516 among girls’ names; 2,687 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,660 Americans named Malky and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 22.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Malky by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Malky?
#1,516 among girls’ names, 2025
Malky rose from #2,070 in 2015 to #1,516 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 53.2 to 87.7 per million.
141 babies in 2025, the peak
Malky peaked in 2025, when 141 girls were given it, #1,516 among girls’ names. In 2024 it went to 126 girls.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 141 | #1,516 | 87.7 |
| 2024 | 126 | #1,644 | 77.8 |
| 2023 | 122 | #1,694 | 76.0 |
| 2022 | 123 | #1,704 | 75.0 |
| 2021 | 119 | #1,737 | 72.5 |
| 2020 | 103 | #1,876 | 63.7 |
| 2019 | 110 | #1,847 | 65.5 |
| 2018 | 92 | #2,093 | 54.1 |
| 2017 | 101 | #1,972 | 58.5 |
| 2016 | 115 | #1,808 | 64.9 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 95 | #2,070 | 53.2 |
| 2014 | 99 | #2,004 | 55.4 |
| 2013 | 88 | #2,148 | 50.1 |
| 2012 | 88 | #2,156 | 50.0 |
| 2011 | 79 | #2,360 | 44.9 |
| 2010 | 74 | #2,508 | 41.6 |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,664 | 37.6 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,709 | 36.0 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,036 | 30.2 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,529 | 38.4 |
| 2005 | 63 | #2,693 | 34.1 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,725 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 60 | #2,657 | 32.8 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,120 | 25.6 |
| 2001 | 40 | #3,394 | 22.2 |
| 2000 | 40 | #3,371 | 22.0 |
| 1999 | 40 | #3,224 | 22.6 |
| 1998 | 42 | #3,048 | 23.8 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,332 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,977 | 11.4 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,619 | 12.5 |
| 1994 | 29 | #3,747 | 16.2 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,835 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,621 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,832 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,190 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,183 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,514 | 6.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,795 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,283 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,993 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,157 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,668 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,656 | 5.9 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,816 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,727 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #5,802 | 7.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,280 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,784 | 4.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,966 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,833 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,277 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Malky a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Malky has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Malky: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Malky, and how old are they?
2,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,687 Americans ever recorded as Malky. The median Malky alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 22.
The 2020 Census counted 1,828 people named Malky (1,807 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,959 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 7 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 48 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 252 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 925 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,430 |
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 Malky born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 131 | #118 | 15.0× |
| New Jersey | 10 | #754 | 1.2× |
Where Malky is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Malky is most over-represented in New York: since 1964 it was given 15.0 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 Malky 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 15,102 babies since 1880, Malky is the third most given (18% of them). In 2025 it was given to 141 of their 468 babies (30%), the second 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 Malky
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 Malky and names like it
- Compare Malky and MalkaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMalky peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Malky since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Malky.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Malky alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.